Michaela Null

Biography

Michaela A. Null received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University and began her appointment as assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac in fall 2012. Originally from Ohio, she started out as a college student at Sinclair Community College and completed her bachelor's degree at Wright State University before spending a year as an Americorps*VISTA working at a daytime homeless shelter. Her work focuses on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and body, as well as race and class, taking a critical lens regarding the sociology of fatness. Professor Null's approach to teaching is similar to her approach to qualitative research: conversational, exploratory and iterative. In Spring 2013, Professor Null gave a talk for UW-Oshkosh's Social Justice Week, entitled No Wrong Way to Have a Body: Why Fatness is a Social Justice Issue. She gave a similar short talk on Fat Studies for UW-Fond du Lac's Creative Campus Faculty Spotlight Spring Lecture Series.

Research Interest

Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Sociology of Human Sexuality, Sociology of Marriage and the Family, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Perspectives on Gender.