This session is sponsored by the SMA.
CHAIRS: RAGSDALE, Kathleen (Miss State U) and RODLACH, Alexander (Creighton U)
COPELAND, Toni (Miss State U) Knowledge versus Behavior: Prevention and HIV-Positive Women in Nairobi,Kenya. Toni Copeland is an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on HIV/AIDS among impoverished women in Kenya. Most recently, Toni received the 2010 University of Alabama Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work in Kenya.
FRANK, Emily (Indiana U) Territories of Risk: Defining Sexual Safety in Southern Zambia. Emily Frank is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the intersection of HIV/AIDS, inheritance and gender in Zambia and her recent publications have appeared in African Studies Review and a special issue of the African Journal of AIDS Research.
KATSULIS, Yasmina (Arizona State U), Alesha Durfee, PhD (Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University) and Vera Lopez, PhD (Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Arizona State University) Sexual and Drug Risk Behaviors for HIV/AIDS: The Social Context of Male Sex Work in Tijuana, Mexico. Yasmina Katsulis is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and the author of “Sex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico.” She conducts research in Mexico and the US on gender, sexuality, and HIV risk among sex workers, homeless women, and child welfare-involved youth
Yasmina Katsulis website (480) 727-6354 (office)
RAGSDALE, Kathleen (Miss State U), READ, Rebecca (U Alabama), MASON, Kimberly and ST. LAWRENCE, Janet S. (Miss State U) Is Spring Break Really that Risky?: Comparison of High Risk Drinking and Sexual Risk Behaviors among College Women at Two Reporting Intervals. PowerPoint
Kathleen Ragsdale is an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on alcohol-related sexual risk and HIV/STIs. Most recently, Kathleen contributed to a special issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy – and in January of this year, she was named as a Fellow in the Society for Applied Anthropology. Kathleen’s co-author, Rebecca Read, is a PhD candidate at University of Alabama.
RODLACH, Alexander (Creighton U) Hiding an HIV-Infection: Zimbabweans’ Fears of People Living with AIDS on Antiretroviral Treatment. Alexander Rödlach is an Assistant professor of Anthropology at Creighton University and the author of “Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa.” In 2009, Alex was the guest co-editor of a special issue of the African Journal of AIDS Research, entitled, “Interdisciplinarity and collaboration in responding to HIV and AIDS in Africa: Anthropological perspectives.”
ROMERO-DAZA, Nancy and HIMMELGREEN, David (U S Florida), and FREIDUS, Andrea (Michigan State U) Love Triangle: Tourism, Sex, and Risk in Rural Costa Rica. Andrea Freidus is a PhD candidate at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on orphanhood in Malawi. Her recent publications have appeared in the international journal, Children and Society and the NAPA Bulletin. Andrea’s co-authors, Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen are both Associate Professors of Medical Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Their research focuses on, among other things, HIV/AIDS in Lesotho and Costa Rica. Nancy’s recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved and the African Journal of AIDS Research. David is currently conducting an NSF-sponsored project in Costa Rica’s Monteverde zone.
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Session took place on Friday, March 26, 2010 in Merida, Mexico at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
