Eric Swank is a Clinical Professor in Social & Cultural Analysis t Arizona State University (West Valley). With over 70 publications, Swank writes on the ways that stigmatized populations accept and challenge social inequalities. In addressing issues of discrimination and agency, his research explores the ways that institutional biases and community resources are related to minority stress, LGBT activism, feminist identities, sexual compliance, and color-blind racism. His works appear in Sex Roles, Social Science Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Homosexuality, Political Research Quarterly, Research in Higher Education and other top journals.
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Recent Publications
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026. "’I Feel Like a Sausage Stuffed into a Casing’: Fat Women’s Body Image Narratives about Wearing Bathing Suits.” Accepted at Journal of Gender Studies
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026. “Does Fatness Politicize Women? Fat Women’s Narratives on whether Fatness is a Feminist Issue.” Sex Roles 92(4), 35
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026 “Hypervisibility meets hyperinvisibility: anti-fatness, moral panics, and mainstream U.S. news coverage of fat people taking Ozempic and Wegovy.” Fat Studies, 15(2): 150-159
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026. “Assessing the Impact of a Course on Radical Manifestos on Students’ Political Beliefs, Attitudes, and Activism." Accepted at Radical Teacher
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. “Intimate Portraits of Fat Women eating: The Missing Discourse of Joy in Food” Fat Studies 15(2): 213-224.
Swank, Eric and Fahs, Breanne. 2024. “Sexual Identities and Political Solidarities among Cisgender Women. ” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 28, 1, 142-60.
Swank, Eric, Fahs, Breanne, and Mayon, Marli*. 2024. “Whose Streets? Understanding Sexual Minority Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement.” Sexuality, Gender & Policy. 7(3), 287–304
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026. "’I Feel Like a Sausage Stuffed into a Casing’: Fat Women’s Body Image Narratives about Wearing Bathing Suits.” Accepted at Journal of Gender Studies
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026. “Does Fatness Politicize Women? Fat Women’s Narratives on whether Fatness is a Feminist Issue.” Sex Roles 92(4), 35
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026 “Hypervisibility meets hyperinvisibility: anti-fatness, moral panics, and mainstream U.S. news coverage of fat people taking Ozempic and Wegovy.” Fat Studies, 15(2): 150-159
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. 2026. “Assessing the Impact of a Course on Radical Manifestos on Students’ Political Beliefs, Attitudes, and Activism." Accepted at Radical Teacher
Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank. “Intimate Portraits of Fat Women eating: The Missing Discourse of Joy in Food” Fat Studies 15(2): 213-224.
Swank, Eric and Fahs, Breanne. 2024. “Sexual Identities and Political Solidarities among Cisgender Women. ” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 28, 1, 142-60.
Swank, Eric, Fahs, Breanne, and Mayon, Marli*. 2024. “Whose Streets? Understanding Sexual Minority Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement.” Sexuality, Gender & Policy. 7(3), 287–304
