My research, work and teaching are at the intersections of religion and health, and I have research experience in the areas of gender and sexuality, health promotion, food and food insecurity, and gender-based violence. I am a Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences where I direct and served as lead author for Faithful Families Thriving Communities, a research-tested faith-based health promotion intervention out of NC State University and the North Carolina Division of Public Health.
With Sarah Bowen, I led FIRST: Food Insecurity Responses, Solutions, and Transformation during COVID-19, an NSF-funded RAPID grant that aims to understand how families’ food practices have shifted as a result of COVID-19 and identify the processes that buffer some families from food insecurity but not others. Along with Sarah Bowen and Sinikka Elliott, I co-led Voices into Action: The Families, Food, and Health Project, a USDA and Russell Sage Foundation-funded study of the family food environment. With Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, I co-led Health Matters, a two-year community-based health promotion grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I am author of When Religion Matters: Practicing Healing in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War (Wipf & Stock, 2016) and co-editor of Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters (Palgrave). Sarah Bowen and I are currently at work on a book about our food insecurity work that is under contract with the University of California Press. Learn more about my publications here.
I hold a PhD (2012) from the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University, where I earned a certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and was a student in the Religion and Public Health Collaborative. I have an MTS from Vanderbilt Divinity School (2005), where I was a Carpenter Scholar and a certificate student in the Carpenter Program for Religion, Gender and Sexuality. My undergraduate degree is in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I have written for the New York Times, Religion Dispatches and the Immanent Frame.
Annie Hardison-Moody 