Interdisciplinary Scholar.

Feminist Educator.

Stephanie L. Hudson is an interdisciplinary scholar and feminist educator based in North Carolina. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Studies with a concentration in Cultural Studies and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, an M.Ed. in Biology from Averett University, and a B.S. in Biology from Salem College. She specializes in the feminist study of the relationship between cultures of technoscience and institutions such as education and medicine. She explores a feminist theoretical analysis of the institutional practices and power relations of medicine and the lived realities of people entangled in these assemblages, and she engages in feminist praxis focused on embodied epistemologies, critical body pedagogies, and curriculum theorizing at the intersection of feminism and technoscience. Her writing has been published in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Dósis: Medical Humanities + Social Justice; Duke Talent Identification Program Teachers Workshop; The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies; and Women’s Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture.

Hudson has more than 20 years of experience across K-12 and higher education. She coordinated curriculum across Guilford College’s liberal arts program and served as the Coordinator for the Integrative Studies major. At the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she worked as a Research Assistant on a project funded by the National Science Foundation to create a self-efficacy intervention to improve student success in STEM courses. As Director of Advanced Learning at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, she provided vision and leadership for STEM education and outreach programs, working with businesses, colleges, government and nonprofit agencies, and K-12 schools. At Carlisle School, an International Baccalaureate World School, she served as Science Department Chair for grades K-12. She has a broad range of secondary science teaching experience in public and private schools. At the postsecondary level, she has taught courses in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; biology; cultural foundations of education; science education methods; and integrative studies.