Adam Isaiah Green

Biography

Adam Isaiah Green’s research is situated at the intersection of the sociology of sexuality and medical sociology, and aims to develop theory relevant to both areas. Green’s primary CANFAR funded research focuses on structures of sexual stratification in contemporary, Western urban enclaves, including sexual fields organized by institutionalized currencies of erotic capital. In a second SSHRC funded project, Green examines Canadian same-sex marriage, including a comparison of homosexual and heterosexual marriages and the role of gender in same-sex marriage. His most recent work, funded by a Standard Operating Grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and a CIHR Early Investigator’s Award, examines the political and institutional processes by which HIV MSM prevention has been formulated, contested and evolved since the beginning of the epidemic. By comparing AIDS Service Organizations and prevention activists in Toronto and Los Angeles, the project distills the politics of prevention epistemology as this has informed prevention theory and praxis. Adam Isaiah Green’s research is situated at the intersection of the sociology of sexuality and medical sociology, and aims to develop theory relevant to both areas. Green’s primary CANFAR funded research focuses on structures of sexual stratification in contemporary, Western urban enclaves, including sexual fields organized by institutionalized currencies of erotic capital. In a second SSHRC funded project, Green examines Canadian same-sex marriage, including a comparison of homosexual and heterosexual marriages and the role of gender in same-sex marriage. His most recent work, funded by a Standard Operating Grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and a CIHR Early Investigator’s Award, examines the political and institutional processes by which HIV MSM prevention has been formulated, contested and evolved since the beginning of the epidemic. By comparing AIDS Service Organizations and prevention activists in Toronto and Los Angeles, the project distills the politics of prevention epistemology as this has informed prevention theory and praxis.

Research Interest

sociology of sexuality and medical sociology