Knowledge of AIDS
Knowledge of AIDS 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). We welcome applicants throughout the project.
Over three years we will hold three workshops, focused on the themes of:
Archive of HIV/AIDS
The historical, sociocultural, and technological aspects of archiving HIV/AIDS-related materials and the cultural memory of the pandemic.
Expertise about HIV/AIDS
The forms of expertise that have emerged in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, including medical, scientific, political, and community-based expertise.
Civic participation in HIV/AIDS
The role of individuals, communities, and organizations in the HIV/AIDS discourse, policy, and activism.
In addition to the workshops we seek develop a robust online community, to support nascent research collaborations with small grants, and by creating a robust mentorship program that will pair early career scholars with more established scholars.
The core goal is to support community formation and the exchange of ideas among members of this STS community with an eye to synthesizing knowledge of this long- pandemic. Activities will be organized with the aim of bridging past findings to socio-technical studies of HIV/AIDS with contemporary trajectories in the field. The RCD will support the next generation of STS scholars focused on HIV and its intersections with other long pandemics.