Academic Writing
Fielding-Singh, P. & Oleschuk, M. (2023). Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities. Sociology Compass, 17(4), doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13067
Raj, M., Oleschuk, M., Chapman-Novakofski, K., & Levine, S. (2023) Perceived facilitators and barriers to implementing culturally inclusive diets into hospitals and long-term care facilities. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2023.04.018
Oleschuk, M. & Maniotes, C. (2023). “We can ‘break bread’ virtually:” Routinized and ritualized aspects of family food provisioning in the United States during lockdown. Journal of Family Communication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2231910
Oleschuk, M. (2022). Who should feed hungry families during crisis? Moral claims about hunger on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10333-2
Baumann, S., Johnston, J., & Oleschuk, M. (2022). How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty. Sociologia Ruralis, 63(1), 178-199. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12401
Johnston, J., Baumann, S., & Oleschuk, M. (2021). Capturing inequality and action in prototypes: The case of meat-eating and vegetarianism. Poetics, 87, 101530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101530
Oleschuk, M. (2020). “In Today’s Market, Your Food Chooses You”: News Media Constructions of Responsibility for Health through Home Cooking. Social Problems, 67(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz006
Oleschuk, M. (2020). Expanding the joys of cooking: How class shapes the emotional experience of family foodwork. Gender, Work & Organization, gwao.12599. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12599
Oleschuk, M. (2020). Gender Equity Considerations for Tenure and Promotion during COVID‐19. Canadian Review of Sociology, 57(3), 502-515, https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12295
Oleschuk, M. (2019). Gender, Cultural Schemas, and Learning to Cook. Gender & Society, 33(4), 607–628. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243219839669
Oleschuk, M., & Vallianatos, H. (2019). Body Talk and Boundary Work Among Arab Canadian Immigrant Women. Qualitative Sociology, 42(4), 587–614. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-019-09428-w
Oleschuk, M., Johnston, J., & Baumann, S. (2019). Maintaining Meat: Cultural Repertoires and the Meat Paradox in a Diverse Sociocultural Context. Sociological Forum, 34(2), 337–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12500
Johnston, J., Baumann, S., & Oleschuk, M. (2019). Omnivorousness, distinction, or both? In F. Wherry & I. Woodward (Eds.), Oxford handbook of consumption (pp. 361-380). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Cairns, K., Johnston, J., & Oleschuk, M. (2018). Calibrating motherhood. In V. Harman, B. Cappellini & C. Faircloth (Eds.), Feeding children inside and outside the home (pp. 174-190). New York: Routledge.
Oleschuk, M. (2017). Foodies of Color: Authenticity and Exoticism in Omnivorous Food Culture. Cultural Sociology, 11(2), 217–233. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975516668709
Rodney, A., Cappeliez, S., Oleschuk, M., & Johnston, J. (2017). The Online Domestic Goddess: An Analysis of Food Blog Femininities. Food, Culture & Society, 20(4), 685–707. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2017.1357954
Mayan, M., Lo, S., Oleschuk, M., Paucholo, A., & Laing, D. (2017). Leadership in Community-Based Participatory Research: Individual to Collective. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2(2), 11. https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v2i2.162
Johnston, J., Cairns, K & Oleschuk, M. (2017). A kind diet: Cultivating consumer politics, status, and femininity through ethical eating. In K. Lebesco & P. Naccarato (Eds.), Handbook of food and popular culture (pp. 286-300). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Oleschuk, M. (2012). Engendering Transnational Foodways: A Case Study of Southern Sudanese Women in Brooks, Alberta. Anthropologica, 54(1), 119–131.
Public Writing & Engagement
Oleschuk, M., Johnston, J., & Baumann, S. (2021). Foodie tensions in tough times. ASA Footnotes Newsletter, 49(1), 6-7. https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/attach/footnotes/footnotes-winter_2021_rev.pdf
Oleschuk, M. (2021). Cooking in Times of Stress. Building Blocks of Resilience, Family Resiliency Center. http://familyresiliency.illinois.edu/system/files/Cooking_in_Times_of_Stress.pdf
Oleschuk, M. (2020). Conversation about gender equity considerations for tenure and promotion during COVID‐19. Episode 2.1 of CRStal Radio, the Podcast of the Canadian Review of Sociology. https://www.crstalradio.com/podcasts/episode-21
Oleschuk, M. (2019). How much do we really learn to cook by our mother’s side? Gender & Society Blog. https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/how-much-do-we-really-learn-to-cook-by-our-mothers-side/
Cairns, K., Johnston, J., & Oleschuk, M. (2017, October 17). Calibrating extremes: The balancing act of maternal foodwork. Gender & Society Blog. https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/calibrating-extremes-the-balancing-act-of-maternal-foodwork/
Oleschuk, M., Cairns, K., & Johnston, J. (2016, December 20). Let’s rethink the pressure of cooking family meals during the holidays. Huffington Post Canada. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/merin-oleschuk/family-meal-holidays_b_13729720.html