Mentor Record

Amy Donovan

University of California, Berkely
School of Public Health

<amydonovan@alum.wellesley.edu>

Degrees Earned:
Degree
Discipline
School
Date
Ph.D. Anthropology The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. New School for Social Research, New York, NY 2002
MA Anthropology

Current Research, Interests, and Goals:

My postdoc at University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health is over and I am now conducting research in a joint project between UCSF and AIDS PROJECT OF THE EAST BAY. The research involves participatory research with young men of color (14-24) who have sex with other men and their social networks. I am also mentoring in a high school program at the UCSF Division of Adolescent Medicine.

Currently preparing a manuscript on Homeless Youth in San Francisco, based on ten years of street-based and collaborative research with youth on their own. Conducting an analysis with Dr. Steve Eyre (UCSF, Division of Adolescent Medicine) of an NIMH funded study entitled Social Knowledge AIDS Intervention for High Risk Youth.

Recently completed advanced training at the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society, and Health.

Subfields of interest within Anthropology:

Urban anthropology, underground and stigmatized labor, collaborative research methods, visual anthropology and museum exhibition, medical anthropology and the study of embodiment, advanced studies in sex and gender, migration and subaltern studies.

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

Transgender, Transsexual, Gender Variance and/or Sexual Variance

Major Publications:

Mixed Media Museum Exhibition collaboratively produced with youth on their own (street youth)
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