@article{mycek_hardison-moody_bloom_bowen_elliott_2019, title={Learning to eat the “right” way: examining nutrition socialization from the perspective of immigrants and refugees}, volume={23}, ISSN={1552-8014 1751-7443}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2019.1700681}, DOI={10.1080/15528014.2019.1700681}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT Existing studies suggests that immigrants’ dietary quality often declines over time after they move to the U.S., despite public and private efforts to provide immigrants and refugees to the U.S. with nutritional resources. Drawing on two interview-based studies with immigrants (n = 30) and refugees (n = 8) in North Carolina, we find that these immigrant/refugee communities often have healthy food traditions from their home countries that they want to maintain, but they lack guidance about how to navigate the U.S. food system in order to do so. Our findings question the notion that “good nutrition” is a universal concept; we argue that by focusing solely on the nutritional components of food, rather than approaching dietary behavior holistically, service providers exacerbate the challenges that immigrants and refugees face in continuing healthy food traditions in the U.S. Our analyzes extend previous research on food socialization by specifically examining the nutrition socialization process of immigrant and refugees, furthering our understanding of how and why immigrants’ diets change over time.}, number={1}, journal={Food, Culture & Society}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Mycek, Mari Kate and Hardison-Moody, Annie and Bloom, J. Dara and Bowen, Sarah and Elliott, Sinikka}, year={2019}, month={Dec}, pages={46–65} }
 @article{mycek_2018, title={Meatless meals and masculinity: How veg* men explain their plant-based diets}, volume={26}, ISSN={["1542-3484"]}, DOI={10.1080/07409710.2017.1420355}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT Scholars have found that assumed connections between meat eating and performances of masculinity are perpetuated across the American public sphere. However, food expectations and choices are constantly shifting and evolving over time. Recent cultural shifts in the middle and upper-middle class American foodscape that moralize “good” eating as choosing local, organic, and eco-conscious foods, prompts the questioning of their social effects for vegetarian and vegan men, who hold a previously-stigmatized consumption identity. This article analyzes qualitative interviews conducted with twenty vegan and vegetarian men in a semi-urban area of the southeastern United States to better understand how they conceptualize and explain their food consumption identities in relation to their broader identity practices. I find their performances of masculinity often defy the conventional feminization of meatless diets, while also upholding gendered binaries of emotion/rationality and current tropes of white, middle-class masculinity.}, number={3}, journal={FOOD AND FOODWAYS}, author={Mycek, Mari Kate}, year={2018}, pages={223–245} }
 @article{mycek_2017, title={Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility}, volume={45}, ISSN={["1939-862X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0092055x17711165}, abstractNote={effective teaching are increasingly included in application materials. For graduate students learning to teach, chapter 21, “Creating Your Teaching Philosophy and Teaching Portfolio,” is more than worthwhile reading as they prepare for the academic job market. In the Trenches is a must-read for any sociologist who teaches, both new and seasoned instructors alike. This book will complement the journal Teaching Sociology and American Sociological Association’s Teaching Resources and Innovations Library (TRAILS), both of which contain a plethora of useful resources, ideas, and assessments of specific topics and strategies. It will find itself at home among your favorite books on pedagogy. In the Trenches is unique because it is a comprehensive handbook for teachers in sociology. The authors understand the nuances of teaching in sociology, have developed their pedagogies in the field, and are experts on the scholarship of teaching and learning in the discipline, making them wise beyond measure.}, number={3}, journal={TEACHING SOCIOLOGY}, author={Mycek, Mari Kate}, year={2017}, month={Jul}, pages={292–294} }