PERSON: Anne DeLessio-Parson

Penn State University

Professor, Department Of Sociology And Criminology

Anne DeLessio-Parson has a sociological, demographic, political and policy-oriented, anti-racist & feminist perspective; rooted in the social justice tradition with the goal of contributing to the currents of social change, transitioning towards world peace.

She strives to create a learning environment that facilitates critical thinking and the questioning of existing power structures in ways that empower and keep us connected to self-directed learning, while developing skills to engage more deeply with our rapidly changing society and contribute to the building of a better future

She examines food in social context. She is especially interested in how our decisions about what to eat are influenced by place in power structures and the people in our lives, as well as the revolutionary potential of plant-based eating practices

She is linking critical theory and anti-racism to population studies, diversity work in academic environments and research, and anything that contributes to destabilizing power structures (white supremacy - heteropatriarchy - capitalism - imperialism) and setting forth more equitable pathways to our shared future

She seeks to combine methodological perspectives and triangulate data sources whenever possible, to capture the complexity and richness of our social lives. She has training and experience in survey methodology, regression-based approaches, and social networks, and she is especially interested in connecting these tools to research unfolding on the critical philosophy of race, feminism, and theorizing about human-animal relationships

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