People at the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health
The CGSH has assembled an unusually diverse and talented group of researchers and scholars whose work has focused on a wide range of issues related to sexuality and gender in relation to health among research populations that have included heterosexual women and men, young people, lesbians, gay and bisexual men and transgendered persons in European, European-American, African-American, Latino, African and Asian ethnic groups.
The core organization of the CGSH is:
- Richard Parker, Ph.D. (Anthropology) - Director
- Mayra Pabon - Program coordinator
- Vagner de Almeida - Field and communications coordinator
- Jennifer Hirsch, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
- Diane di Mauro, Ph.D. (Psychology)
- Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Dr.PH. (Sociomedical Sciences)
- Constance Nathanson, Ph.D. (Sociology)
- Vera Paiva, Ph.D. (Psychology)
- Robert Sember (Cultural Studies)
- Patrick Wilson, Ph.D. (Psychology)
Graduate research assistants:
- Daniel Castellanos (DrPH student)
- Beth Filiano (PhD student)
- Jonathan Garcia (PhD student)
- Marni Sommer (DrPH student)
- Ernesto Vasquez (PhD student)
- Carmen Yon-Leau (PhD student)
- Maria Dulce Natividad (PhD student)
- Kirk Fiereck (PhD student)
About the CGSH director.
Richard Parker, Ph.D. is also a professor and chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City, as well as President of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) and a professor (currently on leave) in the Institute of Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
His major publications include Bodies, Pleasures and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991), Sexuality, Politics and AIDS in Brazil (written together with Herbert Daniel, London: The Falmer Press, 1993), Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World (edited together with John H. Gagnon, New York and London: Routledge, 1995), Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), Culture, Society and Sexuality: A Reader (edited together with Peter Aggleton, London: UCL Press, 1999), and Framing the Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Power (edited together with Regina Maria Barbosa and Peter Aggleton, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2000).
He serves on the editorial board for a range of scholarly journals, including Archives of Sex Research, Sexualities, Health and Human Rights and Interface, and is editor-in-chief for the new journal, Global Public Health.
Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia University, in the early 1990s Parker was the founder and director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Health at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, which has been nationally and internationally recognized as the leading sexuality research and training program in Brazil.
He was also the founder and coordinator of the International Working Group on Sexuality Research in the global AIDS and Reproductive Health Network, which played a key role in stimulating the development of social constructionist sexuality research throughout the Latin American, Asian and African regions.
In part as an outgrowth of these activities, he is also one of the Founding Editors of the journal, Culture, Health and Sexuality, which began publication in 1999 and has already become one of the leading international journals for sexuality research, with by far the most multi-cultural editorial board and publication record of any sexuality journal in the world.
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