Sabrina Strings
Sabrina Strings has a B.A. with High Honors in Psychology from University of California-Berkeley and an M.A. in Sociology from University of California-San Diego. She received her Ph.D. from University of California-San Diego. Her research examines the co-construction blackness and whiteness vis à vis the discourse surrounding "racially appropriate" female bodies from the Enlightenment through the early 20th century. Dr. Strings is a former McNair Scholar and has received several awards for her research from the African and African American Studies Research Center, as well as the Ujima Network. Since completing the ARC postdoctoral fellowship, she served as a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow from 2013-2015. She is also a 2017-2018 Hellman Fellow. Her first book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, is forthcoming with NYU Press. Dr. Strings is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Irvine