Hector Carrillo
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Associate Professor Department of Sociology
Areas of Interest: Latino culture and ethnicity, sexuality, migration, and health. |
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Héctor Carrillo was born in Mexico City and received a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently is a faculty member in the Department of Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, and a principal investigator in the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality in the same institution. In September, Dr. Carrillo will become Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Gender Studies Program at Northwestern.
Dr. Carrillo’s areas of specialization are Latino culture and ethnicity, sexuality, migration, and health. He is the author of The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association. The Night Is Young is based on ethnographic research conducted in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second largest city. It analyzes sexuality-related processes of social and cultural change in urban Mexico and the role that HIV prevention programs have played within such changes.
With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Carrillo currently investigates the intersections of sexuality, migration, and heath among Mexican gay and bisexual men who have relocated to California. This research focuses on how these men change, in terms of their sexualities and sexual health, as a result of migration to the United States. In collaboration with co-investigators in Mexico, Dr. Carrillo is also conducting a separate study of the meanings associated with adult male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy among Mexican immigrant men and their female and male sexual partners. Dr. Carrillo is also initiating a new study, in collaboration with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, of the influence of spatial mobility on late testing and access to medical and HIV prevention services among Latino/a migrants in California.
Dr. Carrillo served as co-chair of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science track of the XVII International AIDS Conference, which took place in Mexico City in August 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of Sexuality Research and Social Policy. He also has a history of involvement in HIV/AIDS community based organizations.
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