Annie Hardison-Moody
Biographic Data
| ID | 247038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Hardison-Moody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardison-Moody |
| SIGNATURE | HARDISON-MOODY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5776-7964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feasibility of dyadic peer support to augment a church-based healthy lifestyle programme
Objective: African Americans in the USA experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease. Healthy lifestyle promotion programmes can help decrease this disease risk. This study determined the feasibility of using dyadic peer support to augment an existing healthy lifestyle programme in African American churches. Design: A prospective pre-post design was used with 80 participants from three churches in the southeastern USA over an 18-week p…
Dyadic Peer Support to Improve Diet and Physical Activity Among African American Church Members: An Exploratory Study
Improving Unequal Food Access Requires Understanding and Addressing the Social Inequalities That Contribute to It
AffiliationsSarah Bowen is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Annie Hardison-Moody is with the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences, North Carolina State University
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families
Previous studies of dietary acculturation explain how immigrants' diets change over time, but they don't tell us why. In response to calls for additional research on the complex social processes that shape health disparities, this study uses an intersectional approach to examine the role of food in the daily lives of 23 Latina immigrants living in North Carolina. Our findings, based on semi-structured interviews conducted over a five-year period,…
Rural Food Insecurity: A Longitudinal Analysis of Low-Income Rural Households with Children in the South
Researchers have noted large spatial variations in rates of food insecurity. But little research exists on why this is so and the impacts it has on rural families. Drawing on a mixed-methods longitudinal study with 124 poor and working-class households in North Carolina, we analyze the processes that shape lower-income rural families’ access to food. We trace the narratives of three families whose stories are emblematic of themes from the larger …
I have to be the example”: Motherhood as a lens for understanding physical activity among low-income women
Parents and people living in poverty are less likely to engage in leisure-time physical activity, yet these groups are underrepresented in socio-ecological studies of activity. To understand barriers and facilitators to leisure-time physical activity within these groups, this study draws on 138 interviews with low-income U.S. mothers to highlight the ways in which motherhood framed their decisions and ability to engage in physical activity. The c…
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity
Rates of food insecurity skyrocketed during the COVID‐19 pandemic, doubling overall and tripling among households with children. Even before the pandemic, the rate of food insecurity in the United States was “unusually high” compared to other rich democracies, and rates have not improved substantially over the last 25 years. What explains the lack of progress in addressing food insecurity? This article maps out an overview of the experiences, cau…
Disenfranchised: How Lower Income Mothers Navigated the Social Safety Net during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Government programs and other forms of assistance act as critical safety nets in times of crisis. The federal government's initial response to coronavirus disease 2019 represented a significant increase in the welfare state, but the provisions enacted were not permanent and did not reach all families. Drawing on interviews with 54 lower-income mothers and grandmothers, we analyze how families navigated the safety net to access food during the pan…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Experiences of Food Insecurity Across Place: A Qualitative Research Protocol
Disenfranchised: Families Facing Food Insecurity in the United States
The Curated Food System: A Limiting Aspirational Vision of What Constitutes “Good” Food
In an effort to elucidate an aspirational vision for the food system and explore whether the characteristics of such a system inadvertently set unattainable standards for low-wealth rural communities, we applied discourse analysis to the following qualitative datasets: (1) interviews with food experts and advocates, (2) scholarly and grey literature, (3) industry websites, and (4) email exchanges between food advocates. The analysis revealed eigh…
Examining Rural Food-Insecure Families’ Perceptions of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: A Qualitative Study
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a critical program that helps reduce the risk of food insecurity, yet little is known about how SNAP addresses the needs of rural, food-insecure residents in the United States (U.S.). This study examines how rural, food-insecure residents perceive SNAP. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 153 individuals living in six diverse rural regions of Arkansas, Montana, North Carolina, Ore…
Blessing unintended pregnancy
Within public health and medical anthropology research, the study of women's agency in reproductive decision making often neglects the role of religion and women's spirituality. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted at a shelter for homeless (mostly African American) mothers in the southeastern United States. We explore the inadequacy of rational choice models that emphasize intentionality and planning, which our research shows…
Learning to eat the “right” way: Examining nutrition socialization from the perspective of immigrants and refugees
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 wan…
Faithful Families, Thriving Communities: Bridging Faith and Health Through a State-Level Partnership
Faith communities are increasingly being recognized as important leaders in community health work, both in the United States and globally. However, faith communities are also often working at or beyond capacity in terms of meeting the social, emotional, and health needs of the communities they serve. To bridge these gaps and build on the significant assets that faith communities possess, the Faithful Families Thriving Communities program was crea…
Bonding and bridging: Leveraging immigrant and refugee community assets to support healthy eating
Studies of acculturation show that immigrants/refugees who fully adapt to US diets have worse health outcomes than those who remain socially isolated; however, social isolation limits access to resources. We combine a bi-directional model of acculturation with the community capitals framework, suggesting improved outcomes when immigrant/refugee communities maintain healthy traditions from their home countries through bonding social capital, while…
Engaging community change: The Critical Role of Values in Asset Mapping
Asset mapping has emerged as a promising tool for mobilizing and sustaining positive changes related to community health and wellbeing. In contrast to approaches that focus on communities' needs or deficits, asset mapping harnesses community resources in order to foster transformation and growth. In this article, the authors analyze asset mapping workshops, which focused on access to food and safe places to be active, that were conducted in two N…
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity
Rates of food insecurity skyrocketed during the COVID‐19 pandemic, doubling overall and tripling among households with children. Even before the pandemic, the rate of food insecurity in the United States was “unusually high” compared to other rich democracies, and rates have not improved substantially over the last 25 years. What explains the lack of progress in addressing food insecurity? This article maps out an overview of the experiences, cau…
Engaging community change: The Critical Role of Values in Asset Mapping
Asset mapping has emerged as a promising tool for mobilizing and sustaining positive changes related to community health and wellbeing. In contrast to approaches that focus on communities' needs or deficits, asset mapping harnesses community resources in order to foster transformation and growth. In this article, the authors analyze asset mapping workshops, which focused on access to food and safe places to be active, that were conducted in two N…
Disenfranchised: How Lower Income Mothers Navigated the Social Safety Net during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Government programs and other forms of assistance act as critical safety nets in times of crisis. The federal government's initial response to coronavirus disease 2019 represented a significant increase in the welfare state, but the provisions enacted were not permanent and did not reach all families. Drawing on interviews with 54 lower-income mothers and grandmothers, we analyze how families navigated the safety net to access food during the pan…
Learning to eat the “right” way: Examining nutrition socialization from the perspective of immigrants and refugees
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 wan…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Experiences of Food Insecurity Across Place: A Qualitative Research Protocol
Faithful Families, Thriving Communities: Bridging Faith and Health Through a State-Level Partnership
Faith communities are increasingly being recognized as important leaders in community health work, both in the United States and globally. However, faith communities are also often working at or beyond capacity in terms of meeting the social, emotional, and health needs of the communities they serve. To bridge these gaps and build on the significant assets that faith communities possess, the Faithful Families Thriving Communities program was crea…
Rural Food Insecurity: A Longitudinal Analysis of Low-Income Rural Households with Children in the South
Researchers have noted large spatial variations in rates of food insecurity. But little research exists on why this is so and the impacts it has on rural families. Drawing on a mixed-methods longitudinal study with 124 poor and working-class households in North Carolina, we analyze the processes that shape lower-income rural families’ access to food. We trace the narratives of three families whose stories are emblematic of themes from the larger …
I have to be the example”: Motherhood as a lens for understanding physical activity among low-income women
Parents and people living in poverty are less likely to engage in leisure-time physical activity, yet these groups are underrepresented in socio-ecological studies of activity. To understand barriers and facilitators to leisure-time physical activity within these groups, this study draws on 138 interviews with low-income U.S. mothers to highlight the ways in which motherhood framed their decisions and ability to engage in physical activity. The c…
Bonding and bridging: Leveraging immigrant and refugee community assets to support healthy eating
Studies of acculturation show that immigrants/refugees who fully adapt to US diets have worse health outcomes than those who remain socially isolated; however, social isolation limits access to resources. We combine a bi-directional model of acculturation with the community capitals framework, suggesting improved outcomes when immigrant/refugee communities maintain healthy traditions from their home countries through bonding social capital, while…
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families
Previous studies of dietary acculturation explain how immigrants' diets change over time, but they don't tell us why. In response to calls for additional research on the complex social processes that shape health disparities, this study uses an intersectional approach to examine the role of food in the daily lives of 23 Latina immigrants living in North Carolina. Our findings, based on semi-structured interviews conducted over a five-year period,…
Blessing unintended pregnancy
Within public health and medical anthropology research, the study of women's agency in reproductive decision making often neglects the role of religion and women's spirituality. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted at a shelter for homeless (mostly African American) mothers in the southeastern United States. We explore the inadequacy of rational choice models that emphasize intentionality and planning, which our research shows…
Engaging community change: The Critical Role of Values in Asset Mapping
Asset mapping has emerged as a promising tool for mobilizing and sustaining positive changes related to community health and wellbeing. In contrast to approaches that focus on communities' needs or deficits, asset mapping harnesses community resources in order to foster transformation and growth. In this article, the authors analyze asset mapping workshops, which focused on access to food and safe places to be active, that were conducted in two N…
Bonding and bridging: Leveraging immigrant and refugee community assets to support healthy eating
Studies of acculturation show that immigrants/refugees who fully adapt to US diets have worse health outcomes than those who remain socially isolated; however, social isolation limits access to resources. We combine a bi-directional model of acculturation with the community capitals framework, suggesting improved outcomes when immigrant/refugee communities maintain healthy traditions from their home countries through bonding social capital, while…
Learning to eat the “right” way: Examining nutrition socialization from the perspective of immigrants and refugees
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 wan…
Faithful Families, Thriving Communities: Bridging Faith and Health Through a State-Level Partnership
Faith communities are increasingly being recognized as important leaders in community health work, both in the United States and globally. However, faith communities are also often working at or beyond capacity in terms of meeting the social, emotional, and health needs of the communities they serve. To bridge these gaps and build on the significant assets that faith communities possess, the Faithful Families Thriving Communities program was crea…
Disenfranchised: Families Facing Food Insecurity in the United States
The Curated Food System: A Limiting Aspirational Vision of What Constitutes “Good” Food
In an effort to elucidate an aspirational vision for the food system and explore whether the characteristics of such a system inadvertently set unattainable standards for low-wealth rural communities, we applied discourse analysis to the following qualitative datasets: (1) interviews with food experts and advocates, (2) scholarly and grey literature, (3) industry websites, and (4) email exchanges between food advocates. The analysis revealed eigh…
Examining Rural Food-Insecure Families’ Perceptions of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: A Qualitative Study
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a critical program that helps reduce the risk of food insecurity, yet little is known about how SNAP addresses the needs of rural, food-insecure residents in the United States (U.S.). This study examines how rural, food-insecure residents perceive SNAP. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 153 individuals living in six diverse rural regions of Arkansas, Montana, North Carolina, Ore…
Blessing unintended pregnancy
Within public health and medical anthropology research, the study of women's agency in reproductive decision making often neglects the role of religion and women's spirituality. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted at a shelter for homeless (mostly African American) mothers in the southeastern United States. We explore the inadequacy of rational choice models that emphasize intentionality and planning, which our research shows…
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity
Rates of food insecurity skyrocketed during the COVID‐19 pandemic, doubling overall and tripling among households with children. Even before the pandemic, the rate of food insecurity in the United States was “unusually high” compared to other rich democracies, and rates have not improved substantially over the last 25 years. What explains the lack of progress in addressing food insecurity? This article maps out an overview of the experiences, cau…
Disenfranchised: How Lower Income Mothers Navigated the Social Safety Net during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Government programs and other forms of assistance act as critical safety nets in times of crisis. The federal government's initial response to coronavirus disease 2019 represented a significant increase in the welfare state, but the provisions enacted were not permanent and did not reach all families. Drawing on interviews with 54 lower-income mothers and grandmothers, we analyze how families navigated the safety net to access food during the pan…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Experiences of Food Insecurity Across Place: A Qualitative Research Protocol
Rural Food Insecurity: A Longitudinal Analysis of Low-Income Rural Households with Children in the South
Researchers have noted large spatial variations in rates of food insecurity. But little research exists on why this is so and the impacts it has on rural families. Drawing on a mixed-methods longitudinal study with 124 poor and working-class households in North Carolina, we analyze the processes that shape lower-income rural families’ access to food. We trace the narratives of three families whose stories are emblematic of themes from the larger …
I have to be the example”: Motherhood as a lens for understanding physical activity among low-income women
Parents and people living in poverty are less likely to engage in leisure-time physical activity, yet these groups are underrepresented in socio-ecological studies of activity. To understand barriers and facilitators to leisure-time physical activity within these groups, this study draws on 138 interviews with low-income U.S. mothers to highlight the ways in which motherhood framed their decisions and ability to engage in physical activity. The c…
Feasibility of dyadic peer support to augment a church-based healthy lifestyle programme
Objective: African Americans in the USA experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease. Healthy lifestyle promotion programmes can help decrease this disease risk. This study determined the feasibility of using dyadic peer support to augment an existing healthy lifestyle programme in African American churches. Design: A prospective pre-post design was used with 80 participants from three churches in the southeastern USA over an 18-week p…
Dyadic Peer Support to Improve Diet and Physical Activity Among African American Church Members: An Exploratory Study
Improving Unequal Food Access Requires Understanding and Addressing the Social Inequalities That Contribute to It
AffiliationsSarah Bowen is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Annie Hardison-Moody is with the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences, North Carolina State University
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families
Previous studies of dietary acculturation explain how immigrants' diets change over time, but they don't tell us why. In response to calls for additional research on the complex social processes that shape health disparities, this study uses an intersectional approach to examine the role of food in the daily lives of 23 Latina immigrants living in North Carolina. Our findings, based on semi-structured interviews conducted over a five-year period,…
Sociology (13 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (7 works) · Food security (6 works)