AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men

Contributors

Contributors About the Editor Douglas A. Feldman, Ph.D., is professor of anthropology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, near Rochester, New York, where he has previously served as chair of the Department of Anthropology. He has conducted research on social, behavioral, and epidemiologic aspects of HIV/AIDS in Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, Senegal, and the United States. He is one of the first anthropologists to conduct research on AIDS in the United States (among gay men in 1982) and the first anthropologist to conduct research on AIDS in Africa (Rwanda, 1985). He has edited five volumes: The Social Dimensions of AIDS: Method and Theory (1986), Culture and AIDS (1990), Global AIDS Policy (1994), The AIDS Crisis: A Documentary History (1998), and AIDS, Culture, and Africa (2008). Previously, he has served on the faculties of the University of Miami School of Medicine and Nova Southeastern University, and was the founding executive director of the AIDS Center of Queens County in New York City. He was awarded the Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology in 1996, and the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group Distinguished Service Award in 2008. He was a visiting professor at the University of Debrecen in Hungary during the spring semester 2009. About the Contributors Fernanda Bianchi, Ph.D. is senior research scientist of the Psychology Department at George Washington University. She has served as project director and coinvestigator in several National Institutes of Health projects in the area of HIV/AIDS among Latino men who have sex with men. She is an advocate in the Latino community and interested in immigrant health. Rudi Bleys, Ph.D., studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Boston University. He is the author of The Geography of Perversion 274 / Contributors (1996) and Images of Ambiente (2000). He currently is head of the Research and Programs Department of Sensoa, the Flemish Centre of Services and Expertise on Sexual Health. Frederick R. Bloom has worked for the STD Division (DSTDP) of the National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 1998. His research areas include marginalized populations in the United States, health-care access , structural interventions, and rapid ethnographic assessment methods. He is currently the deputy associate director of science for the DSTDP at the NCHHSTP and leads the NCHHSTP Public Health Ethics Team. Ralph Bolton is professor of anthropology at Pomona College in California. He has published numerous articles on HIV/AIDS prevention. Bolton edited The AIDS Pandemic (1989) and coedited Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Cultural Approaches (1992) and The AIDS Bibliography: Studies in Anthropology and Related Fields (1992). He chaired the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group and served as cochair of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. He was a member of the American Anthropological Association ’s commissions on AIDS and on LGBT issues. He teaches courses on human sexuality, gay rights, and lesbian and gay ethnography. Scott Clair’s research has focused on the application of social network models to risk behavior; examining risky behavior, particularly the HIV risk behaviors of drug users; the effects of oral HIV testing on HIV transmission beliefs; and the dissemination of effective interventions. Charles Collins, Ph.D., is the section chief for the Science Application Team in the Capacity Building Branch of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His team of behavioral scientists is responsible for the national diffusion/dissemination of evidencebased behavioral interventions into HIV prevention public health practice. Samuel Colón is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at American University . His dissertation examines how indigenous peasant producers in the remote highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, organize to participate in fair trade coffee networks. He is currently living and working in Oaxaca. Contributors / 275 Carlos U. Decena teaches in the Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. His articles have been published in the Journal of Urban Health, Sexualities, and GLQ. Jeanne Ellard is a research officer at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney. There she conducts research with gay men who have recently acquired HIV infection. She has also worked extensively on issues of masculinity and kinship in relation to Australian family law and is soon to complete her Ph.D. dissertation on heritage and space in the context of inner...