Dr. Cynthia Pope

Associate Professor

Department of Geography Central Connecticut State University   Office: DiLoreto 209 Hours: No spring hours Phone: 860-832-2799 Fax:     860-832-3140 Email:  popec@ccsu.edu

Forthcoming Book:

HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention

Cynthia Pope, Renée T. White, and Robert Malow, editors

Routledge, 2008

This anthology is excellent for providing a comprehensive overview of HIV/AIDS globally. The reader uniquely fills a gap in the lack of comprehensive readers that address HIV/AIDS in the international context and fits diverse settings at various academic levels. In this reader, cutting-edge issues in HIV/AIDS research, policymaking, and advocacy are covered by internationally known experts in public health, epidemiology, and social and behavioral sciences, with the goal of serving as a textbook and reference for the university classroom, libraries, and researchers.  This reader offers original manuscripts from leading scholars, which cannot be obtained from other sources. This anthology appeals to individuals with varying degrees of knowledge, particularly regarding methodological and theoretical perspectives.  Framing essays provide another unique feature in this reader. These nine original essays present a state-of-the-literature for each section, providing historical context, and, in several cases, also predicting how HIV transmission and scholarly research will progress in the future. While HIV/AIDS research advances very quickly, this reader has been designed to have an enduring impact and one that will not go out of date as quickly as other readers on the market.

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Abstracts

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Some Interesting Links:

Association of American Geographers

Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Medical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

National Women's Studies Association

World Health Organization

Yale University, Division of Global Health

Abstracts for the book "HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention

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Course Links:

• Geog 434 Geography Of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
• Geog 500 The History and Methodology of Geography
• Geog 598 Research in Geography
• Geog 470/514 Health and Disease in the Global Context
• Geog 436 Geography of South America
• Geog 220 Introduction to Human Geography
• Geog 470 Geography of Coffee and Tropical Commodities

Research Interests:

My research interests are globalization of health and disease; HIV/AIDS and gender in the Caribbean (primarily Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Belize) and in Latino populations in the U.S.; Injection Drug User and HIV/AIDS risk; feminist geography; health and risk; and international health research ethics. My field work focuses on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Uganda. Please contact me if  you would like to assist in research in Cuba or Belize in summer 2008.

Curriculum Vita

International Medical Geography Symposium, Bonn, 2007 presentation slides

Sample Publications:

• Pope, C, R. White, and R. Malow. 2008. HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention. Routledge.

• Pope, C. Forthcoming 2008. Pathologies of Invisibility: Mayan Communities and HIV Risk in Western Belize. In Max Kucyznski: Social Medicine in the Amazon, eds. Marcos Cueto and Michael Knipper.

• Pope, C. and T. C. Green. Forthcoming 2008. Using a GIS Framework to Assess Hurricane Recovery Needs of Substance Abuse Center Clients in Katrina- and Rita-affected Areas. In Geographies of Drug Use, ed. I. Chung, Association of American Geographers, Washington DC.

• Pope, C and R. White. 2007. Global Impact: U.S. Sexual Health and Reproductive Policy.  In 21^st Century Sexualities, eds. G. Herdt and  C. Howe, London and New York, Routledge Press.  

• Pope, C.  2005. The Political Economy of Desire: Geographies of Female Sex Work in Havana, Cuba. Journal of International Women's Studies. 6(2): 99-118. Access at http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/Jun05/

• Pope, C. 2004. Navigating Cuba’s Changing Cultural Landscapes: Reflections from a panel discussion. Proceedings: New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society. 33: 100-108.

• Pope, C. 2003. Book Review: Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities. Journal of Latin American Geography. 2(1): 111-112.

• Pope, C. and R. White. February 24, 2003. "Keep Ideology Out of Fight against AIDS" The Hartford Courant, Op-Ed article.

• Pope, C. Babies and Borderlands: Factors Influencing Sonoran Women's Decision to Seek Prenatal Care in Southern Arizona. 2001. In Geographies of Women's Health, eds. S.L. McLafferty, I. Dyck, and N. Lewis. London and New York, Routledge: 143-158.

• Oberhauser, A.,...Pope, C. Crossing Borders and Building Bridges: Feminist Geography in the 1990s. 2004. Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Center, ed. Gary Gaile and Cort Willmott. Washington, DC, AAG: 736-758.
• Walsh, Bridget, Cynthia Pope, et al. SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) in a Mexico Border Town. 2001. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 7:3-9.
• Pope, C. Medicina sin fronteras: el caso de las mujeres sonorenses que reciben atención médica prenatal en Arizona. 1998. Noésis. 10(20-21): 39-62.

In Process:

• Pope, C. and Renee White, eds. Globalization of HIV/AIDS: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Under contract with Routledge, expected release date winter 2007.
• Research Ethics and Clashing Expectations: A Case Study on HIV research in Uganda, with C. Kaplan and R. White.
• GeoJournal, Editing and Contributing to Special Issue on HIV/AIDS

Manuscript Reviewer for (abbreviated list):

• ACME: On-Line Journal of Critical Geography

• Annals of Tourism Research

• Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies

• Feminist Economics

• Health and Place

• Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education for Children and Youth

• Southeastern Journal of Geography