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CURRICULUM VITAE (December 2016) SANYU A. MOJOLA Department of Sociology University of Colorado Boulder Ketchum 268, 327 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0327 Email: [email protected] EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2017 – Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, August 2008 - present Faculty Associate, Women and Gender Studies Department, University of Colorado Boulder, October 2011 – present Faculty Associate (Population Program, Health and Society Program), Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, May 2009 - present EDUCATION Ph.D University of Chicago, USA. Sociology August 2008 M.A. University of Chicago, USA. Sociology December 2003 B.A. University of Durham, UK. Psychology & Sociology July 2000 First Class Joint Honors FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (Best Book of the Year), American Sociological Association 2015-2016 Hutchins Fellowship, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University 2015 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association. 2015 Finalist (Honorable Mention), Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for Best Book on East African Studies, African Studies Association 2013-2014 Gamm Teaching Fellow 2013 Faculty Mentor of the Year, Department of Sociology, CU-Boulder (Awarded by CU-Boulder Sociology Department Graduate Students) 1 2009 Winner of the Richard Saller Dissertation Prize The Richard Saller Dissertation Prize is given to the graduate whose dissertation is the most distinguished piece of scholarship across the Social Science Division of the University of Chicago in a given year. 2007-2008 Henderson Dissertation Fellowship 2007-2008 Robert E. Park Lectureship 2005-2006 Population Reference Bureau Policy Communication Fellowship 2002 United Nations Population Division Outreach Program Fellowship 2001-2004 University of Chicago Graduate Student Fellowship RESEARCH GRANTS EXTERNAL: HIV after 40 in Rural South Africa: Aging in the Context of an HIV/AIDS Epidemic Principal Investigator . National Institute on Aging, NIH. R01 AG049634. $1,307,144. 09/30/2016 – 03/31/2021 INTERNAL: Understanding HIV Risk Factors among African American Youth. Principal Investigator . University of Colorado Boulder, Council on Research and Creative Works (CRCW) Junior Faculty Development Award. ($5000) 2009-2016 HIV after 40 in Rural South Africa. Principal Investigator . University of Colorado Boulder, Innovative Seed Grant. ($45,500) 2012-2013 Understanding the Role of Transitions to Adulthood in Shaping HIV Risk among African Americans. Principal Investigator . University of Colorado Population Center Developmental Grant ($3000). 2009 - 2011 RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS Sociology of Health Specialization: Health Disparities, HIV/AIDS Sociology of Gender Specialization: Romantic Relationships, Education, Inequality The Life Course Specialization: Adolescence, Transition to Adulthood, Aging Demography Specialization: Trends, Mixed Methods PUBLICATIONS BOOK Mojola, Sanyu A. 2014. Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS . University of California Press Awards: 2016 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award; ASA Sex and Gender Section: 2015 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award; Finalist, 2015, Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for Best Book on East African Studies, African Studies Association 2 Reviews: American Journal of Sociology, Gender and Society; Contemporary Sociology; Center for Medical Humanities- UK; International Feminist Journal of Politics; Revue Afrique Contemporaine; Ufahamu: Journal of African Studies Interviews: BBC Channel 4 - Thinking Allowed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055gbt8 Author Meets Critics: Southern Sociological Society 2015; American Sociological Association 2017 (forthcoming) PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (Student Coauthors Italicized) Sennott, Christie and Sanyu A. Mojola – “Behaving Well”: The Transition to Respectable Womanhood in Rural South Africa. Culture, Health and Sexuality. Forthcoming. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2016.1262062 Mojola, Sanyu A ., Jill Williams, Nicole Angotti and F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé. 2015. HIV after 40 in Rural South Africa: A Life Course Approach to HIV Vulnerability among Middle Aged and Older Adults. Social Science and Medicine 143(October 2015): 204–212 Profiled on UNAIDS website : http://sciencenow.unaids.org/post/reduce-sexual-transmission-156 Okigbo, Chinelo , Caroline W. Kabiru, Joyce N. Mumah, Sanyu A. Mojola , and Donatien Beguy. 2015. Influence of Parental Factors on Adolescents’ Transition to First Sex among Urban Poor Adolescents Living in Nairobi Slums, Kenya. Reproductive Health 12 (2015): 73 doi: 10.1186/s12978-015-0069-9 Mojola, Sanyu A. 2015. Material Girls and Material Love: Consuming Femininity and the Contradictions of Post-Girl Power among Kenyan Schoolgirls. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Special Issue: Post-Girl Power: Globalized, Mediated Femininities 29(2):218- 229 Kabiru, Caroline, Patricia Elung’ata, Sanyu A. Mojola and Donatien Beguy. 2014. Adverse Life Events and Delinquent Behavior among Kenyan Adolescents: The Protective Role of Self-Esteem, Religiosity and Parental Monitoring. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 8(24):1-11 Mojola, Sanyu A. 2014. Providing Women, Kept Men: Doing Masculinity in the Wake of the African HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Signs 39(2): 341-363 Reprinted in: Zinn, Maxine Baca, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael Messner and Amy.M.Denissen 2015.Gender Through the Prism of Difference. 5 th edition. Pp 299- 310. Oxford University Press. Kabiru, Caroline W., Sanyu A.Mojola , Donatien Beguy, and Chinelo Okigbo . 2013. Growing Up at the “Margins”: Concerns, Aspirations and Expectations of Young People Living in Nairobi’s Slums. Journal of Research on Adolescence Special Issue: Adolescents in the Majority World. 23(1): 81–94 3 Mojola, Sanyu A. and Bethany Everett . 2012. STD and HIV Risk Factors among U.S. Young Adults: Variations by Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation. Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health 44(2): 125-133 Mojola, Sanyu A. 2011. Multiple Transitions and HIV Risk among Orphaned Kenyan School Girls. Studies in Family Planning 42(1):29-40 Mojola, Sanyu A. 2011. Fishing in Dangerous Waters: Ecology, Gender and Economy in HIV Risk. Social Science and Medicine 72(2): 149-156 Parish, William L., Edward O. Laumann and Sanyu A.Mojola . 2007. Sexual Behavior in China: Trends and Comparisons. Population and Development Review 33(4):729-756 BOOK REVIEWS Esacove, Anne. 2016 . Modernizing Sexuality: US HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. American Journal of Sociology . Forthcoming July 2017 123(1) Dworkin, Shari L. 2015. Men at Risk: Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and HIV Prevention . New York, NY: New York University Press. Gender and Society . Forthcoming. WORK IN PROGRESS (Student Coauthors Italicized) MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Mojola, Sanyu A . - The Social Production of an HIV Epidemic: The Case of Washington D.C. ( Revised and Resubmitted ) Angotti, Nicole, Sanyu A. Mojola , Enid Schatz, Jill Williams, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé - ‘Taking Care of Yourself’ in the Age of AIDS: Older Rural South Africans’ Strategies for Surviving an HIV Epidemic (Revise and Resubmit ) Houle, Brian, Sanyu A. Mojola, Nicole Angotti, Enid Schatz, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Samuel Clark, Jill Williams, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn and Jane Menken - Sexual Behavior and HIV Risk across the Life Course in rural South Africa: Trends and Comparisons (Initial Review ) MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS BOOK: Mojola, Sanyu A – Race, Health and Inequality: Producing an HIV Epidemic in the Shadow of the Capitol. ARTICLES: (drafts available) Mojola, Sanyu A, Nicole Angotti, Enid Schatz and Brian Houle - Navigating Aging, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community: Applying an Age- Period- Cohort Lens to Qualitative Life History Interviews. 4 Schatz, Enid, Brian Houle, Sanyu A. Mojola , Nicole Angotti, Jill Williams - How to “live a good life”: Aging and HIV testing in rural South Africa Pike, Isabel , Sanyu A. Mojola , and Caroline W Kabiru – The Meaning of Marriage for low- income young people in Nairobi, Kenya TEACHING AND MENTORING UNDERGRADUATE COURSES SOCY/WMST 1016 Sex, Gender and Society 1 SOCY 3042 Sociology of HIV/AIDS SOCY 4131-001 Cross Cultural Perspectives on Romantic Relationships SOCY 4131-005 Reconceiving Africa (Gamm Interdisciplinary Award Course) STUDENTS BA Honors Thesis Chair Rachel Ptaszek 2008 – 2009; Tara Dakin 2010 – 2011; Courtney McShane 2011 - 2012 BA Honors Thesis Outside or Secondary Committee Member Daniel Schiffman (Economics, 2009); Nisha Shah (Ethnic Studies, 2011-2); Emily Clary (History, 2012); Nina Zabolotnaya (Economics, 2012); Whit Garley (Political Science, 2013); Erica Rozbusch (Psychology, 2014); Andrés Gonzáles (Sociology, 2014); Alex Dudley (African Studies, 2014 – 2015); Meghan Hughes (History, 2014 – 2015) Sociology Honors Program Director and Honors Council Representative 2014 - 2015 Claire Cohen; Cali Greska; Hilary Johnson; Alexis Schwartz; Wisam Alshaibi; Shayna Hamburg Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Students Rosemary Rast (2011-2012); Sara Watkins (2011-2012) Undergraduate Research Assistants