Holly Wardlow
Holly Wardlow, Ph.D., MPH (Emory University, 2000)
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator, St. George Campus
(416) 978-2199
Office: AP 234
Field: Medical anthropology, feminist anthropology, international health, gender and sexuality, HIV/AIDS; Papua New Guinea
Research
Dr. Wardlow is currently finishing one project and beginning another. The first is a collaborative project funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, "Love, Marriage and HIV/AIDS: A Multi-Site Study of Gender and HIV Risk." This is a five-country comparative ethnographic study of married women's risk for HIV in five countries: Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, and Vietnam. Dr. Warlow's colleagues on this project are Jennifer Hirsch (Columbia University), Daniel Smith (Brown University), Shanti Parikh (Washington University in St. Louis), and Harriet Phinney (University of Washington). For more information see www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/sms/cgsh/lmhiv1.html
The second project, funded by SSHRC, is "The Moral Politics of 'Reliable Personhood' and the Social Life of Antiretroviral Therapy Policy in Papua New Guinea." Dr. Warlow's plan is to investigate Papua New Guinea's ART program from three different social locations:
(1) the policy arena, where national and international actors work together, although sometimes at odds with each other, to create and implement goals, procedures, and rules for making ART available to patients;
(2) the clinical arena, where nurses and doctors are put in the position of gatekeepers, not only monitoring patients' well-being on ART, but also deciding which HIV- positive patients gain access to ART, and
(3) the lived experience of patients who are on ART, particularly how they incorporate the antiretroviral regimen into their daily lives and how they manage potential conflicts between "patient-hood" and personhood--that is, the difficulties encountered in trying to meet expectations of being good, reliable patients while also being enmeshed in the obligations and pleasures of daily life.
Recent Publications
2012 The Task of the HIV Translator: Transforming Global AIDS Knowledge in an Awareness Workshop. Medical Anthropology 31(5): 404-419.
2011 Holly Wardlow with Mary M. Tamia. “Sweet Electrical Greetings”: Women, HIV, and the Evolution of an Intervention Project in Papua New Guinea. In Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie L. McNeely (eds.), Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights, pp.143-157. New York: Routledge.
2010 Jennifer Hirsch, Holly Wardlow, Daniel Smith, Shanti Parikh, Harriet Phinney, and Constance Nathanson. The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
2009 Labour Migration and HIV Risk in Papua New Guinea. In Mary Haour-Knipe, Peter Aggleton, and Felicity Thomas (eds.), Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS, pp. 176-186. New York: Routledge.
2008 "You have to understand: some of us are glad AIDS has arrived": Chirstianity and Condoms among the Huli of Papua New Guinea." In Leslie Butt and Richard Eves (eds.), Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality and Power in Melanesia. University of Hawaii Press.
2008 "She liked it best when she was on top": Intimacies and Estrangments in Huli Men's Marital and Extramarital Relationships." In William Jankowiak (ed.), Intimacies: Love and Sex across Cultures, pp. 194-223. Columbia University Press.
2007 "Men's Extramarital Sexuality in Rural Papua New Guinea." American Journal of Public Health 97(6): 1006-1014.
2006 Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. Berkeley: University of California Press
2006 Modern Loves: The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage. Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Warlow (eds.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2005 The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change. Joel Robbins and Holly Wardlow (eds). Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Press.
2004 "Anger, Economy, and Female Agency: Problematizing "Prostitution" and "Sex Work" in Papua New Guinea." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29(4): 1017-1040.
