Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Rebecca L. Upton

Biography

Rebecca L. Upton, PhD. (Brown 1999) currently holds the Edward Myers Dolan chair in Sociology and Anthropology at DePauw University. She researches and writes on infertility and HIV/AIDS in northern Botswana, on the construction of work and family among contemporary American families and the intersections of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in her work in Africa and the U.S. She teaches a range of courses at DePauw including, African Cultures, the Anthropology of Death, Gender & Anthropology, African Art and Museum Studies, the Anthropology of Contemporary American Culture,  Ethnographic Methods, History of Anthropological Theory and Culture, Medicine & Health: an Introduction to Medical Anthropology.  While a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Faculty member in 2009 - 2010 she carried this emphasis on gender and health to courses at the University of Botswana and the Centre for the Study of HIV and AIDS in Gaborone, Botswana. 

Research Interest

HIV,Sociology,Anthropology,AIDS