Lori Baralt
Lori Baralt received her BA in Women’s Studies and Political Science from the University of Florida in 2002. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Michigan State University with expertise in feminist theories, social movements, and women’s health. She also completed a specialization in Gender, Justice and Environmental Change through the Women and International Development Program.
Her dissertation, “Health Social Movements in a Transnational Context: Racing around the World for a Cure” critically examined the global expansion of biomedical breast cancer advocacy. Expanding on research related to breast cancer and the environment, she co-authored an article on the collaboration between breast cancer advocates and scientists in the Breast Cancer and Environment Research Centers that have been funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Studies and the National Cancer Institute. She also co-authored a piece examining the politics behind Komen for the Cure’s defunding of Planned Parenthood in 2012.
More recently she has published two articles related to her feminist pedagogical practices in WGSS 375: Reproductive Justice and WGSS 424: Gendering Environmental Justice. She also co-authored an article about gendered and racialized carework during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her work has been published in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Environmental Health Perspectives, Women’s Health Issues, and the Journal of Religion and Health as well as in edited volumes, including bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy for the 21st Century Classroom, 21st Century Handbook of Sociology, and Health and Environment: Social Science Perspectives. She has presented research papers at the National Women’s Studies Association, the American Public Health Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Pacific Sociological Association, and the American Sociological Association.
Gender, Health & Sexuality, Reproductive Justice, Environmental Justice, Intersectional Environmentalism, Feminist Pedagogy, Gender and Sexuality Education in K-12 public schools
WGSS 101: Gender, Race, Sex and the Body
WGSS 375: Reproductive Justice
WGSS 424: Gendering Environmental Justice
WGSS 301: Feminist Research Methods
Baralt, Lori. (2023). “Bridging Disciplinary Divides: Facilitating Participatory Feminist Community in Interdisciplinary Classes” in Kristen Comeforo and Mala L. Matacin (eds.) bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy for the 21st Century Classroom, 67-78. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Hassberg, Analena, Araceli Esparza, Lori Baralt, and Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson (2022). “Feminist Faculty Narratives of Gendered and Racialized Carework During the Pandemic” Journal of Feminist Scholarship 21 (Fall): 22-45.
Baralt, Lori, Emily Carian, Amy Johnson, Sojung Lim, Soo-Yeon Yoon. (2020) “Millennials and Gender in an Era of Growing Inequality” Sociological Perspectives 63(3): 452-460.
Martin, Nancy, Lori Baralt, Claire Garrido-Ortega. (2018) “What's Religion Got to Do With It?: Exploring College Students' Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge and Awareness of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Relation to Their Gender and Religiosity” Journal of Religion & Health 57: 1856-1875. doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0432-y
Baralt, Lori. (2014) “A Seat at the Table, ‘A Lab of Our Own’ and Working with What We Know Now: How the U.S. Environmental Breast Cancer Movement Shapes Research.” In Public Shaping of Medical Research: Patient Associations, Health Movements, and Biomedicine, edited by Willy Viehöver and Peter Wehling, 23-40. London, Routledge Press.
Baralt, Lori and Tracy Weitz. (2012) “The Komen-Planned Parenthood Controversy: Bringing the Politics of Breast Cancer Advocacy to the Forefront.” Women’s Health Issues 22(6): 509-512.
Baralt, Lori. (2012) “Just Another Business Decision for Komen.” Ms. Magazine. (Feb 1, 2012) Available at: msmagazine.com/blog/2012/02/01/just-another-business-decision-for-komen/
Baralt, Lori. (2011) “Breast Cancer and the Environment.” In Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health, Volume Four: Current Issues and Emerging Debates, edited by Robert Friis, pgs. 287-310. Wesport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Baralt, Lori and Sabrina McCormick. (2011) “Breast Cancer Environment Centers and Advocacy: Baralt and McCormick Respond.” Environmental Health Perspectives 119 (5): A201-A202.
Baralt, Lori and Sabrina McCormick. (2010) “A Review of Advocate-Scientist Collaboration in Federally Funded Environmental Breast Cancer Research Centers.” Environmental Health Perspectives 118(12): 1668-1675.
Baralt, Lori. (2010) “Biomedical and Environmental Health Perspectives: The Example of Confronting Breast Cancer.” In Health and Environment: Social Science Perspectives, edited by Helen Kopnina and Hans Keune, pgs. 139-155. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publication.
Fitzgerald, Amy and Lori Baralt. (2010) “Constructing Responsibility for the Production and Mitigation of Environmental Harms: The Case of Mercury-Contaminated Fish.” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 52(4): 341-368.
Linda Kalof and Lori Baralt. (2006) “Sociology of Femininity.” In 21st Century Handbook of Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Volume 2, edited by C.D. Bryant and D.L. Peck, 16-22. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Linda Kalof, Amy Fitzgerald and Lori Baralt. (2004) “Animals, Women, and Weapons: Blurred Sexual Boundaries in the Discourse of Sport Hunting.” Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies 12(3): 237-252.
