Barbara Ley
Associate Professor, Women & Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Communications
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Barbara Ley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women
& Gender Studies and Communication. She received her PhD (History of
Consciousness) from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2003 and
joined the University of Delaware faculty in 2011. Much of her research has
focused on public engagements with science, technology, and medicine. Her 2009
book, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environment Breast Cancer
Movement, presents a cultural history of activists’ efforts over the past two decades
to push for increased scientific and public attention to environmental causes
of breast cancer and disease prevention more generally. She has also published
on topics such as online pregnancy and mothering culture, the role of social
media in science-based activism, and public understandings of forensic science.
More recently, Ley has
shifted her research and teaching to the areas of trauma-informed care,
embodied healing, and anti-oppression efforts. She teaches an undergraduate
course on mindfulness and self-care for secondary trauma as part of the
Department of Women & Gender Studies’ Domestic Violence Prevention Services
program; serves as a collaborator on several yoga and mindfulness intervention
studies; and is writing a book on the scientific and social intersections of
neurobiology, childhood trauma, and societal inequality. As a certified yoga
instructor and trauma-informed practitioner, she also teaches yoga and
mindfulness to youth, families, and adults in the community.
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