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Adam Geary Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies

Telephone: (520) 621-2166
Office: 925 N Tyndall, Room 109C
Homepage: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ageary
Email: ageary@email.arizona.edu

Adam Geary is an Assistant Professor in Gender & Women's Studies and a member of the Executive Committee of the UA Institute for LGBT Studies.  His research is in critical AIDS studies, where he is writing a book exploring the role of socially-mediated, embodied vulnerability to disease in the history and current contours of the global AIDS pandemic.  Professor Geary received his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2004.

Degree(s):

Ph.D. (2004) History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz

M.A. (1995) New Testament/Early Christian Literature, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA

B.A. (1991) Religious Studies, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH


Research Interests:

Critical Health & AIDS Studies

Feminist, Queer, Psychoanalytic & Poststructural Theories of Culture and Society

LGBT, Queer and Sexuality Studies

Religious Studies


Selected Publications:

"Inessential Theory: Culture and AIDS risk Governance."  Eä: Journal of Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology 2.3 (April 2011). http://www.ea-journal.com.

"Culture as an object of ethical governance in AIDS prevention." Cultural Studies 21, nos. 4-5 (July/September 2007): 672-694.


Courses Taught:

History of Modern Sexualities (GWS/HIST 202)

Feminist Theories (GWS 305)

Queer Theories (GWS 309)

Feminist Interpretations of Health (GWS/ANTH/SOC/CPH 487)

Moral Politics (GWS 605)

Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory (GWS 645)