Emily Ekl
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Emily Ekl
@EklEmily
Sociology PhD Candidate - Indiana University "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams



🚨🤓Submit to our ESS 2025 mini conference! We welcome papers on how health professionals build solidarities within, across, between, and beyond their professions, on practices of solidarity, and on forging community-partnerships to build solidarity beyond the ivory tower.🚨🥸



🚨🤓Submit to our ESS 2025 mini conference! We welcome papers on how health professionals build solidarities within, across, between, and beyond their professions, on practices of solidarity, and on forging community-partnerships to build solidarity beyond the ivory tower.🚨🥸

Emily Ekl (@EklEmily) presents "Cultivating, Managing, and Leveraging Authority: How Allied Health Professionals Negotiate Authority to Provide Patient Care" at the session "Professional and Expert Work: Struggles for Legitimacy."

Emily Ekl (@EklEmily) presents "Cultivating, Managing, and Leveraging Authority: How Allied Health Professionals Negotiate Authority to Provide Patient Care" at the session "Professional and Expert Work: Struggles for Legitimacy."


Emily Ekl (@EklEmily), Brea Perry (@RealBreaPerry) and colleagues present "Precarity in Safety Net Healthcare: Structural Inequalities at the Systems Level" in the session "On the Edge: Health Care Delivery at the Margins."

Emily’s (@EklEmily) research & teaching interests include medical sociology, work and organizations, and social networks. Her dissertation draws on comparative ethnography to understand how mid-status professionals navigate a healthcare system that was built to privilege doctors.

Emily’s (@EklEmily) research & teaching interests include medical sociology, work and organizations, and social networks. Her dissertation draws on comparative ethnography to understand how mid-status professionals navigate a healthcare system that was built to privilege doctors.








