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Culture, Sex, and Pleasure: 2011 Summer Institute Faculty
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Christopher White
Director of Education and Training
National Sexuality Resource Center
Christopher White, Ph.D., is the Director of Education and Training at the
Professor of Sociology, Public Health & Urban Education
Juan Battle is a Professor of Sociology, Public Health, & Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.). With over 50 grants and publications – including articles, encyclopedia entries, book chapters, and books – his research focuses on race, sexuality, and social justice. Professor Battle’s scholarship has included work throughout North America, as well as on South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Among his projects, currently he is heading the Social Justice Sexuality initiative – a project exploring the lived experiences of Black, Latina/o, and Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States and Puerto Rico. He is a recent Fulbright Senior Specialist and was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Further, he is a former president of the Association of Black Sociologists and is actively involved with the American Sociological Association (ASA). He received his A.S. and B.S. from York College of Pennsylvania. His M.A. and PhD were both received from the University of Michigan.
Martin F. Manalansan IV
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies
Conrad Professorial Humanities Scholar
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Martin F. Manalansan IV is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies and Conrad Professorial Humanities Scholar at the
Amy Schalet
Assistant Professor, Sociology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amy Schalet is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Schalet's research has focused on sexuality and culture and she has authored several publications on comparative adolescent sexuality. Her book, Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex, to be published by the University of Chicago Press, examines approaches to adolescent sexuality in American and Dutch families. Prior to coming to the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Schalet held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she pursued the public health and policy implications of her research on adolescent sexual health. Dr. Schalet has given plenary addresses at sexual and reproductive health conferences, including the CDC Conference on STD-Prevention. She was recently awarded a grant by the Ford Foundation entitled, "Advancing Sexuality Education, Health and Policy Using a New ABCD for Adolescent Sexuality" which will expand previous work with physicians to educators, administrators, and school-based nurses.
Patrick Wilson
Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
New York, New York
Patrick Wilson, PhD, focuses on research related to HIV risk and prevention, ethnicity, and sexuality among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States. Dr. Wilson's work falls into three broad topic areas including the intersecting roles that psychological factors (i.e., self-concept, identity, self-efficacy) and socio-contextual factors (i.e., social networks, discrimination and stigma, religion, trauma) play in explaining HIV risk and protective behaviors among ethnic minority MSM; the situational factors that may promote or prevent sexual risk-taking, substance use, and poor mental health among MSM; and the development, implementation, evaluation, and translation of primary and secondary HIV prevention interventions targeting youth and MSM. Cutting across these topical areas is his use of innovative and rigorous quantitative and qualitative methodologies to answer research questions of interest. Dr. Wilson's research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Charlie Glickman