Director (2021-2023)
Rebecca Hodes (D.Phil, Oxon) is a medical historian. She is the Director of the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS & Gender, and a faculty member of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. Hodes is a founder and co-Principal Investigator of the Mzantsi Wakho research study, about the medicines-taking and sexual health practices of South African youth. She is the author Broadcasting the Pandemic: A History of HIV/AIDS on South African Television (HSRC Press, 2014), a monograph that combines analyses of health communications and social movements.
Hodes’s academic writing has been published in AIDS, AIDS Care, African Affairs, the African Journal of AIDS Research, Critical Public Health, Global Public Health, the Journal of Southern African Studies, the International Journal of African Histories Studies, Medical Humanities, the Social History of Medicine, the South African Historical Journal, and the South African Medical Journal, in addition to other peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
Hodes’s current research interests encompass histories of science, race and sex; popular responses to epidemics; qualitative and participatory research methods; bioethics, and the medical and pharmaceutical humanities.
