Trained as a medical anthropologist (Ph.D.) and epidemiologist (M.P.H.), Dr. Vance has written about sexuality, health, and policy; controversies about sexuality, science, and visual imagery; sexuality theory; and gender, sexuality, and health. She also edited Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. She has been the occupant of the Doris Stevens Chair in Women's Studies at Princeton University, a Visiting Fellow in Sexualities and Culture at the Australian National University, a Non-Fiction Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and a member of many sexuality organizations. She teaches at in the Mailman School of Public Health and the Law School.

Current Interests

Carole S. Vance, Ph.D., M.P.H., an anthropologist, specializes in sexuality, human rights, health, gender, medical anthropology, cultures of science and biomedicine, and ethnographic methods. She is the Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, a Rockefeller Foundation post-doctoral residency program designed to encourage new scholarship about sexuality and rights, and facilitate conversations between academics, advocates, and activists in the US and internationally. Her current work focuses on integrating sexuality with human rights frameworks and claims. Dr. Vance is also involved in many international programs for research and training in sexuality.

Publications

Vance, C. (2001) Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality
In Plummer, Kenneth (Ed.). Sexualities: Critical Assessments. London: Routledge, pp. 356-371.

Vance.C.(2001) Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment. In I. Grewal and C. Kaplan (Eds.), Gender in a Transnational World. New York: McGraw Hill, pp. 28-31

Vance, C. (in press). Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. In LaFont, Suzanne (Ed.), Constructing Sexualities. New York: Prentice Hall.