Marquisele Mercedes

Education:

B.A., English Literature, Language, and Criticism, Hunter College, The City University of New York; Ph.D., Behavioral and Social Health Sciences, Brown University

Dissertation:

Black Fat Interventions For and Against the Field of Weight Stigma Research

Thesis Advisor:

Madina Agénor, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University

Research Topic:

Antiblackness, antifatness, and ableism in public health

Mentor:

Janet Shim, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

Current Position:

President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco