{"id":465,"date":"2026-08-06T19:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:56:12","slug":"julie-spray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/julie-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Spray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-36f65c2d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-a0d91a25 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border is-style-rounded wp-duotone-unset-2 is-style-rounded--1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Spray-Julie.png\" alt=\"Illustrated portrait of Julie.\" class=\"has-border-color has-contrast-border-color\" style=\"border-width:3px;border-top-left-radius:20px;border-top-right-radius:20px;border-bottom-left-radius:20px;border-bottom-right-radius:20px;box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--crisp);aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:69.4%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Julie Spray<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Julie Spray is an interdisciplinary medical and childhood anthropologist whose research traces intersecting health issues from public policy to children\u2019s perceptions. Integrating biosocial, ethnographic and visual arts-based methods, her work advocates for greater inclusion in health policy of those marginalised by dominant social structures and values, particularly children, adolescents, and disadvantaged communities. She uses collaborative drawing, ethnographic illustration, and comics to convey the embodied and spatial-relational dimensions of childhoods, interdisciplinary knowledge production, and research encounters. She is a lecturer in Children\u2019s Studies at the University of Galway, where she leads the Borderlands study of epistemic recognition in interdisciplinary spaces.<br><br>Check out her website: <a href=\"https:\/\/juliespray.com\">juliespray.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Select Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spray, J. (2022). What Does Drawing Do for the Anthropology of Childhood. Graphic Ethnography on the Rise. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culanth.org\/fieldsights\/what-does-drawing-do-for-the-anthropology-of-childhood\">www.culanth.org\/fieldsights\/what-does-drawing-do-for-the-anthropology-of-childhood<\/a><br><br>Spray, J. 2023. \u201cDrawing Talks.\u201d\u00a0<em>NEOS<\/em>\u00a015 (2).\u202f <a href=\"https:\/\/acyig.americananthro.org\/neosvol15iss2fall23\/spray\/\">https:\/\/acyig.americananthro.org\/neosvol15iss2fall23\/spray\/<\/a><br><br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsbasedresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}