Dr. Hailey Otis wins 2025 Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Award from UMD
January 30, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Otis!
Department of Communication Assistant Professor Dr. Hailey Otis won one of UMD's 2025 Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards!
Dr. Otis won for the project titled, "#RiotsNotDiets: Fat-Positive Worldmaking in the Body Positivity Movement." This project will result in the completion of a new book, #RiotsNotDiets: Fat-Positive Worldmaking in the Body Positivity Movement, which weaves together rhetorical analysis, critical autoethnography, and oral histories to uplift the voices of body positive activists and influencers and examine the future viability of this social movement.
You can also learn more about Dr. Otis here.
Congrats on this wonderful award!