About
Kristen Abatsis McHenry’s research interests include: genealogies and politics of cancer, and environmental health advocacy, and the gendered health dimensions of fracking using feminist technoscience theoretical frameworks. Kristen Abatsis McHenry holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She completed her M.A. at Georgia State University in Women's studies, and her B.A. is from Ithaca College in Women’s Studies and Politics. Kristen Abatsis McHenry published her first book The Green Solution to Breast Cancer: the Promise of Prevention (2015 Praeger) and is currently working on her next book manuscript Don't Frack Your Mother under contract with University of Washington Press' Feminist Technoscience Series. She has also published articles in Signs, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and Energy Research and Social Science. She currently is the Director of Health and Society and Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.