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Agricultural and Human Sciences

Annie Hardison-Moody, PhD

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Annie Hardison-Moody

Associate Professor; Interim Assistant Family and Consumer Sciences Program Leader

Extension Specialist

4101 Beryl Road, 240F

919-515-8478

Bio

Annie Hardison-Moody received her PhD in religion at Emory University in 2012, where her studies focused on the intersections of religion and public health. Dr. Hardison-Moody continues to work in the emerging field of religion and health, with a focus on gender, food and food insecurity, and poverty.

She is co-editor of Parenting Practices as a Source for Theology: Mothering Matters (Palgrave Macmillan), and author of When Religion Matters: Practicing Healing in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War (Wipf & Stock), which examines the role that religion played in women’s healing practices post-conflict.

She is co-PI for 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. She was co-PI of Health Matters, a CDC-funded initiative that promotes healthy eating and places to be active in four North Carolina counties and also co-PI for Voices into Action: The Families, Food, and Health Project, a USDA- and Russell Sage Foundation-funded longitudinal study of the family food environment (2012 – 2020).

Dr. Hardison-Moody is also Director of Faithful Families Thriving Communities, a faith-based health promotion intervention. Her work with Faithful Families garnered an invitation to the Obama White House, through the Let’s Move initiative.

In addition to her research and extension work, Dr. Hardison-Moody is the Director of Graduate Programs for the Youth, Family, and Community Sciences Program, where she also teaches courses in on Human Sexuality and Family Relationships Through the Lifecourse.

Programs and Initiatives

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

  • AEHS 537: Human Sexuality
  • AEHS 579: Research Proposal Development in AHS

Contributing Websites

Professional Honors/Offices/Recognitions

  • 2023 – Group Recipient Award for Equity for Women Awards, NC State University
  • 2019 – World Leisure Organization, Innovation Prize, Highly Recommended Project (Team Award), Health Matters
  • 2018 – Jeanne M. Priester Award for Community Programming (Team Award), Faithful Families Eating Smart and Moving More, National Health Outreach Conference
  • 2018 – Excellence in Teamwork Award for the Extension Master Food Volunteer Program, North Carolina Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
  • 2018 – North Carolina Association of Cooperative Extension Specialists, Outstanding Subject Matter Program by a Team Award, Extension Master Food Volunteer Program
  • 2015 – Opal Mann Green Award for Extension and Engagement, Voices into Action: The Families, Food, and Health Project (Team Award), North Carolina State University

Selected Publications

  • Butler JL, Johnson CM, Hardison-Moody A, Bowen SK. (2024). Food Insecurity Associated with Higher Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Lower Diet Quality among Women Caregivers in North Carolina. Nutrients. 16(15):2491. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16152491
  • Bowen, S., Hardison-Moody, A., Oceguera, E. C., & Elliott, S. (2023). Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families. Social Problems, 6, spad013. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spad013
  • Houghtaling, B., Haynes-Maslow, L., Andress, L., Hardison-Moody, A., Grocke-Dewey, M., Holston, D., Patton-López, M., Pradhananga, N., Prewitt, T., Shanks, J., Webber, E., & Byker Shanks, C. (2023). Food insecurity among households with children during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(3), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.123.015
  • Bowen, S., Hardison-Moody, A. 2023. Improving Unequal Food Access Requires Understanding and Addressing the Social Inequalities That Contribute to It. American Journal of Public Health, 113, no. 4: pp. 353-355. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307243
  • Shisler, R., Cordero Oceguera, E., Hardison-Moody, A., & Bowen, S.* (2023). Addressing and preventing food and housing insecurity among college students: An asset-based approach. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(2), 135–153. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.122.022 *equally authored
  • Conley, C., Hardison-Moody, A., Randolph, S., Gonzalez-Guarda, R., Fisher, E. B., & Lipkus, I. (2023). Dyadic Peer Support to Improve Diet and Physical Activity Among African American Church Members: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Religion and Health, 10.1007/s10943-023-01743-5. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01743-5
  • Byker-Shanks, C., Houghtaling, B., Shanks, J., Grocke-Dewey, M., Webber, E., Andress, L., Hardison-Moody, A., Patton-Lopez, M., Haynes-Maslow, L. (2022). Disparities in dietary practices during the COVID-19 pandemic by food security status. Preventive Medicine Reports, 28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101830.
  • Conley, C., Gonzalez-Guarda, R., Randolph, S., Hardison-Moody, A., Fisher, E. B., & Lipkus, I. (2022). Religious social capital and minority health: A concept analysis. Public Health Nursing, 00, 1– 7. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13082
  • MacNell, L., Hardison-Moody, A., Wyant, A., Bocarro, J., Elliott, S., Bowen, S. (2022). “I have to be the example”: Motherhood as a lens for understanding physical activity among low-income women. Journal of Leisure Research. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222216.2022.2051116
  • Bowen, S., Elliott, S., Hardison-Moody, A.* (2022). Rural Food Insecurity: A Longitudinal Analysis of Low-Income Rural Households with Children in the South. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 8(3). *equally authored

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Education

BA Women's Studies and Religious Studies UNC Chapel Hill

MTS Theological Studies Vanderbilt University

PhD Religion Emory University

Area(s) of Expertise

  • Religion and Health
  • Gender
  • Food Insecurity 
  • Poverty and Inequality

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