Victoria Brockett
Graduate Student
Sociology
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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About
Victoria Brockett is a doctoral student in the Sociology Department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Her research interests lie at the nexus of the sociology of health and medicine, environmental sociology, and social movements, with a particular focus on social theory, food systems, and resistance. Her master’s research leveraged quantitative and novel experimental methods to examine how race and gender shape ideas surrounding the meaning and goals of veganism. Through ethnography, Victoria is currently exploring veganism as a case of health activism and food sovereignty, centering the knowledge of subjugated communities in the Midwest for her dissertation.
Victoria’s recent work is published in Mobilization: An International Quarterly, also covered by UIC Today, and has been recognized by UIC Sociology and the American Sociological Association’s Animals and Society Section for outstanding graduate research.
Victoria is currently the student representative of the American Sociological Association’s Animals and Society Section. In recent years, she has also served on the editorial team for the Student Journal of Vegan Sociology and as the newsletter editor of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists.