Stephanie Fetta
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2023 Fellow, Public Engagement Project
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, College of Humanities & Fine Arts
Stephanie Fetta studies how shame is communicated through the body. For example, a furrowed brow shows the shame we feel for another, and a racing heart tells us we are not held as equals. Fetta argues racial shaming is a habit, a socially trained bodily communication that becomes second nature. As a PEP Fellow, Fetta will write op-eds and give interviews on understanding the body’s role in racism, an essential step towards changing the unconscious yet potent way by which racism is perpetuated.