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Treena Orchard

Associate Professor

School of Health Studies

Orcid identifier0000-0002-9660-5869
  • Associate Professor
    School of Health Studies

BIO

Associate Professor Treena Orchard is an anthropologist and author who researches sexuality, gender and health among marginalized groups and within the context of her own life. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is featured in 130+ media stories about her research, activism and public scholarship. Treena also been a featured guest on several podcasts, including one hosted by NYT Best-Selling author Dr. Wednesday Martin, who also penned the foreword to her memoir. Told with humour and vulnerability, Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture & The Darker Side of Dating Apps (University of Toronto Press) is a riveting and inspiring manifesto about how we can stay true to ourselves amid the digitization of love in the twenty-first century.