Karen L. Baird is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purchase College, SUNY, where she also teaches in the Gender Studies program. She is also an author and consultant, works to reduce HIV/AIDS in the United States, and is active in a variety of social justice organizations.
Her latest book is Beyond Reproduction: Women’s Health, Activism, and Public Policy (2009, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). Read more about the book and her other work in “Publications,” and read the introductory chapter here Beyond Reproduction chp. 1
Karen L. Baird is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purchase College, SUNY where she also teaches in the gender studies program. She has been at Purchase College since 1994 and has chaired, at various times, the political science and the gender studies programs. Read about the classes she teaches in “Courses.”
Karen L. Baird serves on the New York City HIV Prevention Planning Group, where she chairs the ”Prevention with High-Risk Negatives” Group. Read more about this work in “Consultant/Community.”
Karen L. Baird is presently conducting ethnographic research for a project on gentrification in Harlem. Read more about this in “Works-in-Progress.”
Karen L. Baird has engaged in research on the issue of women and HIV/AIDS in the United States for a number of years. She has written many papers, given lectures, and is working on a book on the problem of women and HIV/AIDS and the challenges we face in addressing the epidemic. Read more about this in “Works-in-Progress.”
Karen L. Baird serves as a Behavioral Social Science Volunteer (BSSV), a program of the American Psychological Association, Office of AIDS. The program provides assistance to community-based organizations offering HIV prevention services. See more about the program here http://www.apa.org/pi/aids/programs/bssv/index.aspx
