Jessica Hardin, Honorable Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, at Rochester Institute of Technology, is a medical anthropologist who studies temporalities, knowledge production, embodiment and methodology. Hardin’s research contributes to the study of chronic illnesses like diabetes, trying to understand how the nexus of food accessibility, healthcare availability, and community institutions shape the wellness landscape. Essential to her feminist approach is paying critical attention to how racialization operates in shaping how healthcare is practiced and how gender makes a difference in shaping how those health inequities are reproduced. She has conducted ethnographic and collaborative research in Samoa and in the United States and this work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Hardin’s books include Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight in Samoa, Paraguay, Japan and the US (2021, University of Toronto Press, coauthored with Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer and Amber Wutich) and Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa (2019, Rutgers University Press). She has published articles in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology and most recently in Anthropology & Education Quarterly.