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Main Courses:

• AIDS & Society, Social Problems, Sociology Internship Program

Research Interests:

• Heterosexual AIDS Epidemic
• Women and HIV/AIDS
• Female Prostitution
• Male and Female Gender Roles and Sexuality
• Families & HIV/AIDS

Education:

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1984
• M.A., Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, 1979, National Dean’s List
• B.A., Sociology, University of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1978, Summa Cum Laude

Selected publications on HIV/AIDS:

• Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, entry on “AIDS,” edited by D. Carr. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2008.
• “AIDS and Society,” syllabus and assignment (with C.E. Foote-Ardah & M. Polgar), Teaching the Sociology of HIV/AIDS: 2004 ASA Workshop Handouts, in Teaching the Sociology of HIV/AIDS: Syllabi, Lectures, and Other Resources for Instructors and Students, 2006.
• Author’s Own Reflections, Reading AIDS: “Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS,” in Body Positive. Vol. XV, No. 1 & 2, pp. 19-22, 2002.
• Women, Families, & HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Encyclopedia of AIDS, A Social, Political, Cultural and Scientific Record of the Epidemic, edited by Ray Smith. Entries on “Sexism,” “Family Policy” and “Prostitution.” New York: Fitzroy Dearborn 1998; reprinted by Penguin, 2001.
• With P. DiCarlo, “Where are the Heterosexual Men in HIV Prevention?” In HIV Prevention: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco & the Harvard AIDS Institute, 1996.
• With M.D. Peck, “Issues in HIV/AIDS Service Delivery to High Risk Youth,” Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, Vol. 2, No. 3/4, pp. 159-177, 1995.
• Reprinted in HIV Disease: Lesbians, Gays and the Social Services. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, pp. 159-177, 1995.
• “Male Gender Roles and Sexuality: Implications for Women’s AIDS Risk and Prevention,” Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 197-210, July, 1995. Translated in Spanish and published as “Los Roles Masculinos De Genero Y La Sexualidad: Implicaciones Para El Riesgo Y La Prevencion Del SIDA En Las Mujeras” by Maria Lameiras Fernandez (ed.), Pp. 69-96 in Sexualidad y Sida en Los Jovenes: Libro de Lecturas by M.F. Lameiras, Universidad de Vigo, Ourense, Spain, 1999.
• Listed in HIV & Gender Based Violence: A Literature Review. Harvard School of Public Health, 2006.
• With C. Sterk-Elifson, “Prostitution in the Netherlands,” in Prostitution, An International Handbook on Trends, Problems, and Policies, edited by Nanette J. Davis, pp. 191-206, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.
• Reprinted in Solutions to Social Problems, Lessons from Other Societies, edited by D.S. Eitzen and C.S. Leedham, pp. 244-254, Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
• Teaching an AIDS Course from a Medical Sociology Perspective” College Teaching, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 3-7, 1992.
• “Prostitution, AIDS, and Preventive Health Behavior,” Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 32, No. 12, pp. 1367-1378, 1991.
• Reprinted in part as “Sex Work, AIDS and Preventive Health Behaviour”in Women and HIV/AIDS: An International Resource Book, edited by Marge Berer and Sunanda Ray, London: Pandora Press, pp. 225-228, 1993.
• “Prostitution and AIDS” in The Behavioral Aspects of AIDS, edited by D G. Ostrow. New York: Plenum Publishing Company, pp. 121‑137, 1990.
• “Women and AIDS” in Social Science & Medicine Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 407-415, 1990.  
• Reprinted in The Complexities of Women: Integrative Essays In Psychology and Biology, edited by Nancy J. Kenney, Michelle Brot, Karen E. Moe, and Kitty Dahl, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, pp. 347-360, 1992.
• In collaboration with CDC, “Antibody to Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Female Prostitutes.” Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, March 27, 1987, Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 157‑161; Reprinted in Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 257, No. 15, p. 2011.

Professional Conferences & Workshops on HIV/AIDS:

• “Stigma,” Los Angeles Women’s HIV/AIDS Task Force Treatment Summit, Los Angeles, December 2015.
• “Women, Aging & HIV/AIDS: Issues in Prevention & Care,” session on “Intersections of Gender, Age & Sexuality in Contemporary Society,” presenter, California Sociological Association, Berkeley, CA, November 2009.
• “HIV/AIDS and the Life Course: Implications for Prevention & Care,” session on “Sexualities and the Life Course,” organizer & presenter, California Sociological Association, Riverside, CA, November 2008.
• “A Sociological Perspective on Today’s Woman,” conference on “Women Empowering Women: Together We Can,” CARE Program, Long Beach, CA, October 2008.
• “Critical Race Theory and the Social Construction of the Down Low: Implications for HIVAIDS Risk and Prevention,” session on “Race, Gender, Bodies & Sexualitiy,” Western Social Science Association, Denver, CO, April 2008.
• “Gender Roles and Racialized Sexualities of Female Prostitutes,” session on “Racial Inequalities and Prostitution,” California Sociological Association, Berkeley, CA, November 2007.
• “Intersections of Gender, Race, Class and Sexual Identities of Men on The Down Low: Implications for HIV/AIDS Risk and Prevention,” session on “Homosexuality and Sexual Identities,” Southwestern Sociological Association, Albuquerque, NM, March 2007.
• “Racialized Sexualities of Men on the Down Low: Implications for HIV/AIDS Risk and Prevention,” session on “Race and Sexualities,” organizer and presenter, California Sociological Association, Riverside, CA, November 2006.
• “Media Framing and Representations of Men on the Down Low: Implications for HIV/AIDS Risk and Prevention,” session on “Negotiating Sexual Identities in the 21^st Century,” Western Social Science Association, Phoenix, AZ, April 2006.
• Panel on “Women, Girls, & HIV/AIDS” (moderator), sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, Health Resource Center, and Asian American Drug Abuse Program, MD��ý���, March 14, 2006.
• Workshop expert for session on “Economics and HIV Risk,” “Latinas, Sex and HIV/AIDS Summit, The Center for Latino Community Health, MD��ý���, December 1, 2005.
• “Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical Issues in Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality,” session on “Intersections of Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality,” organizer and presenter, California Sociological Association, Sacramento, CA, November 2005.
• “Gender Issues in HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care,” panel on “International Issues in HIV/AIDS,” International Education Week, sponsored by the Center for International Education, MD��ý���, November, 2004.
• “Teaching about HIV & AIDS,” Teaching workshop, organizer, discussion leader & panel participant, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 2004.
• “The Resurgent AIDS Epidemic: Sociological Issues in Prevention and Care,” session on “Sociological Issues in AIDS Prevention and Care,” California Sociological Association, Berkeley, CA, November 2003.
• “Issues in Prevention and Care for Families with HIV/AIDS,” session on “AIDS: A Family Affair,” sponsored by Sociologists’ AIDS Network, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 2003.
• Discussant, panel on “HIV/AIDS Issues for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities, Sociology Graduate Symposium, “Working Together: Academia and Activism, Case Studies in Community Centered Policy, University of Southern California, March 2003.
• “Issues in AIDS Education and Prevention,” Men’s Central Jail, Los Angeles County, July 2001.
• “Women and AIDS,” presentation with Ayo James, Long Beach Health Department; sponsored by the Sociology Student Association, MD��ý���, for College of Liberal Arts Week, 2000.
• “Gender Issues in HIV Disclosure,” (poster presentation with Ayo James, Long Beach Health Department), Third Annual Investigators’ Meeting, Universitywide AIDS Research Program, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 2000.
• “Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS,” Psychology Colloquia Series, MD��ý���, 2000.
• “Women, HIV, and AIDS,” 1999 Annual AIDS Case Management Program/Medi-Cal Waiver Program (CMP/MCWP) Conference, Long Beach, CA, 1999.

Other Research & Consulting/Advising Involvements on HIV/AIDS:

• Thesis Committee Member for Whitney Hynes, a student in the Master’s Program in Social & Cultural Analysis of Education, School of Education, MD��ý���. Thesis title: Art as Critical Queer Public Pedagogy: Reimaging the Role of Identity, Kinship and Resistance as a Response to the AIDS Crisis, 2011.
• Consultant, Project on Vulnerable Population Project: Sex Workers, conducted by MD��ý��� nursing students, Natalya Ptashinsky and Michelle Nguyen, 2010. The focus of the project was on health risks of street sex workers in Long Beach.
• Member of Advisory Board, Project Choice, a MD��ý��� HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention campaign and risk reduction program for students on campus, 2009-2010. A major focus of Project Choice was on risk reduction in the Latino community.
• Moderator, panel discussion on HIV/AIDS Prevention on the MD��ý��� campus, 2008. That panel, Global & Local AIDS Event, was sponsored by the Sociology Student Association and Alpha Kappa Delta.
• Editorial Board, Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children & Youth, Haworth Press, 2005-2007.
• Co-Principal Investigator, Needs Assessment Study of Women with HIV Disease in Long Beach, in collaboration with St. Mary’s Care Program and Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 2002-2003.
• Co-Director for Study Design and Analysis Core, HIV Support Program, MD��ý��� Center for Research and Behavioral Services, an emerging research center project funded by University of California’s AIDS Research Program, 2000.