Charlotte Markey

Contributor

Dr. Charlotte Markey, Ph.D, began writing about all things eating behavior, weight management and body image for U.S. News in 2015. Markey is a psychology professor at Rutgers University-Camden and founder of its Health Sciences Center. Her first book, “Smart People Don’t Diet: How the Latest Science Can Help You Lose Weight Permanently” (2014; Da Capo Lifelong Press), was called “possibly the best book about weight loss ever written,” by Scientific American. Her second book (co-edited with Drs. Elizabeth Daniels and Meghan Gillen), “Body Positive: Understanding and Improving Body Image in Science and Practice,” was published by Cambridge University Press in the summer of 2018. Markey’s book, "The Body Image Book for Girls: Love Yourself and Live Fearlessly," will be published in 2020.

Markey has published nearly 100 book chapters and journal articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has hundreds of presentations to her name at universities across the U.S. and at national and international conferences. Markey also blogs for Psychology Today and Science of Relationships (aka Luvze.com). Her research has garnered widespread media attention, and she has also been featured in and interviewed by numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Today Show, Health Day, ABC News, Time magazine, Health Psychology, The Washington Post, Science Daily, NBC News, Psych Central and Men’s Health. She has appeared on radio and television shows including NPR and PBS. Markey conducts seminars, talks and presentations to hundreds of people a year, primarily in the tristate area.

A native Californian (but a long-term transplant to the east coast) Markey completed her B.S. at Santa Clara University and her Ph.D. at University of California–Riverside. To learn more about Charlotte Markey, you can visit her websites www.CharlotteMarkey.com or www.SmartPeopleDontDiet.com, or connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube.