Viviane Namaste
Professor
Department: Simone de Beauvoir Institute
Faculty: Arts and Science
Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2371 | |
Email: | viviane.namaste@concordia.ca |
Expertise:
HIV/AIDS, Sexual Health
Language(s) spoken:
English, French (able to conduct interviews in French)
Professional associations:
PhD
My current research seeks to interrogate the limitations of our knowledge on HIV/AIDS and sexual health. I seek to demonstrate the important contributions that critical social science inquiry can make to our understandings of infectious disease. My substantive projects in HIV/AIDS work with a number of different populations (bisexuals, trans people, Haitians) in an effort to consider some of the blind spots of how we conceptualize and respond to the epidemic. It is in thinking about the juncture of these theoretical and methodological issues that my research addresses women's lives and women's health.