Dr. Shannon Jette (she/her)
Dr. Shannon Jette is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans the fields of kinesiology, public health, feminist science & technology studies (STS), and the sociology of health and the body. Her research is unified by a feminist-informed social justice agenda that seeks to: question taken-for-granted knowledge about the gendered body; inform the creation of more equitable policy and service provision; and, create space for alternative ways of knowing and experiencing the body that promotes wellness in movement. In the broadest terms, her research focuses on theorizing and empirically analyzing how the spheres of politics and science intersect to shape physical activity ‘risk’. Jette has published in such journals as Health, Risk & Society, Sociology of Health & Illness, Leisure Sciences, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and Sport, Education, and Society. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
Education:
Ph.D. in Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia
M.A. in Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia
B.Sc. in Kinesiology, Simon Frasier University
Research:
Interests: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Embodiment, Risk, Health Disparities, Gender
Contact:
Email: jette@umd.edu
Website: https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/laboratories-projects-and-programs/technologies-health-context-thinc-laboratory
Featured Publications
Jette, S. (2022). Materializing risk in the pregnant athlete: Using material-semiotic tools to examine black-boxed and dis-qualified ‘facts’ in the IOC evidence summaries. In L. Spowart & K. McGannon (Eds.), Motherhood and sport: Collective stories of identity and difference (pp. 76-88). New York, NY: Routledge.
Justin, T., & Jette, S. (2022). “That chart ain’t for us”: How Black women understand 'obesity', health and physical Activity. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine, 26(5), 605-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593211046844
Nelson, M., & Jette, S. (Aug 2022 online first). Muscle moves mass: Constructing a culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1177/10126902221120183
Posbergh, A., & Jette, S. (2022, accepted 2021). “Track’s coed, I never thought of it as separate”: Challenging, reproducing, and negotiating gender stereotypes in track and field. Sociology of Sport Journal, 39(1), 47-55.
Esmonde, K., & Jette., S. (2021). ‘We are not a nation of softies, but we could become one’: Exploring the materiality of fitness testing in the President’s Council on Youth Fitness. Somatechnics, 11(3), 395-412.
Jette, S., & Esmonde, K. (2020). The (in)active body multiple: An examination of how prenatal exercise ‘matters’. In M. MacDonald & J. Sterling (Eds.), Sports, society and technology anthology (pp. 195-217). Palgrave Macmillan.
Jette, S., Esmonde, K., Andrews, D., & Pluim, C. (2020). Big bodies, big data: Unpacking the Fitnessgram® black box. In J. Newman, H. Thorpe, & D. Andrews (Eds.), Sport, physical culture, and the moving body: Materialisms, technologies, ecologies (pp. 131-150) Reutgers University Press.
Jette, S., & Pluim, C. (2020). Critical health education in critical times: Pedagogy, praxis, & possibilities (Editors’ introduction). Thresholds in Education, 43(1), 1-7.
Jette, S., Esmonde, K., & Maier, J. (2019 available online). Exploring prenatal physical activity at the ‘postgenomic turn’: A transdisciplinary journey. Leisure Sciences, 41(1-2), 36-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2018.1539683
Jette, S., Maier, J., Esmonde, K., & Davis, C. (2017). Promoting prenatal exercise from a sociocultural and life-course perspective: An “embodied” conceptual framework. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 88(3), 269-281.
