My book will be published April 2026!

The book tracks the social history of three AIDS research infrastructures, that over three decades have ‘interoperated’, that is, sought to make their resources combinable and comparable.

Empirically, the book is about all the work and technique demanded across years, decades and continents to support scientific studies of HIV/AIDS when next to nothing has stayed the same : not the disease, but also not the science or technology, not those who die from it or live with it, and certainly not its politics. And yet still, these research infrastructures go on supporting research.

Theoretically, the book is about the politics and practices of 'equivalency’, or how different things are made to work together, such as interoperable data, or heterogenous human identities.

I was just informed we have won the 4S Infrastructure Prize for our digitalSTS project!

This is an honor that is much appreciated, as many people invested a great deal of effort and intellectual sweat to make it happen.

KOA - Knowledge of AIDS Annual Workshop III —‘Participation’ — March 24th-26th, 2026, San Diego, CA

UTMB Book Talk — Bioethics and Medical Humanities, March 20th, Galveston, TX

UCSD Book Talk — Science Studies — March 30, 2025, San Diego, CA

Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) is an NSF Funded Research Community Development (RCD) project that seeks to form scholarly community for social scientific, humanistic, and socio-technical researchers of HIV/AIDS broadly situated within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

Spring 2026 we will hold our third workshop, focused on Participation and Activism, occurring in the midst of what is a very hard time in the US for HIV/AIDS, and especially people living with the disease.

In fall 2025 my department was awarded the SECURE Center, a very large grant from the NSF to stand-up a new coordinating center for research security in the US.

This has propelled me to develop new lines of research on policy analysis , and on the rise of research security itself in the US and globally.

More on this soon.