Jennifer S. Hirsch

Jennifer S. Hirsch
Hirsch speaks at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., in January 2020
Born1967 (age 58–59)
New York, New York
OccupationsResearcher, professor, social justice advocate
Board member ofJews for Racial and Economic Justice (2014-2020)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellow 2012
Academic background
EducationJohns Hopkins University, Ph.D.
Princeton University B.A
Alma materPrinceton University, Johns Hopkins University
Academic work
InstitutionsDeputy Chair for Doctoral Studies, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Main interestsCommunity health, global health, HIV/AIDS, maternal and reproductive health, LGBT health
Notable worksSexual Citizens: Sex, Power and Assault on Campus; A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families

Jennifer Hirsch is a professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. From 2010 to 2024, she directed Sociomedical Sciences's doctoral programs. She currently co-directs the Columbia Center for Population Research. Hirsch also co-directed the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation.[1][2] Her work spans topics such as gender, human sexuality, and public health. Her book, A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families, which has been used widely in college classrooms, explores the lives of Mexican women in Atlanta and rural Mexico, with a focus on changing ideas of marriage among Latinx couples. Hirsch served on the Board of Directors of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice from 2014 to 2020 (and as board chair from 2018 to 2020) and is a member of B'nai Jeshurun[3]

Books

Authored or co-authored

  • Hirsch, Jennifer S. A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
  • Hirsch, Jennifer S., Daniel J. Smith, Holly Wardlow, Shanti Parikh, Harriet Phinney, and Constance A. Nathanson. 2009. The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press.
  • Hirsch, Jennifer S., and Shamus Khan. 2020. Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus. W. W. Norton & Company.

Edited or co-edited

  • Hirsch, Jennifer S. and Holly Wardlow. 2006. (Eds.): Modern Loves: The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472069590
  • Padilla, Mark, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Robert Sember, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy and Richard Parker, eds. 2007. Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0826515858

Publications

Original peer reviewed articles (selected)

Non-peer reviewed publications

  • Hirsch, Jennifer. "The Facts: Teenage Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Latin America." Washington, D.C: Center for Population Options, 1990.
  • Hirsch, Jennifer. "The Facts: Teenage Pregnancy in Africa." Washington, D.C.: Center for Population Options, 1990.
  • Hirsch, Jennifer. "The Facts: Young Women and AIDS: A Worldwide Perspective." Washington, D.C.: Center for Population Options, 1990.
  • Hirsch, Jennifer (1990). "Between the Missionaries' Position and the Missionary Position: Mexican Dirty Jokes and the Public (Sub)Version of Sexuality". Critical Matrix: Princeton Working Papers in Women's Studies. 5: 1–27.
  • Barker, Gary, Jennifer Hirsch, and Shara Neidell. Serving the Future: an Update on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs in Developing Countries. Washington, D.C: Center for Population Options, 1991.
  • Yinger, Nancy, Alex de Sherbinim, Luis H. Ochoa, Leo Morris and Jennifer Hirsch. La Actividad Sexual Y La Maternidad Entre Las Adolescentes en América Latina y El Caribe: Riesgos y Consecuencias. Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau, Macro International, and the Centers for Disease Control, 1992.
  • Jennifer Hirsch and Gary Barker. Abortion and Adolescents in the Developing World: A Preventable Tragedy. Washington, D.C.: Center for Population Options, 1992.
  • Hirsch, Jennifer S. 'Because he misses his normal life back home': Masculinity, Sexuality and AIDS Risk Behavior in a Mexican Migrant Community. Migration World Magazine, Volume 29, No. 4, 2000.

Awards

  • Carole H. Browner Graduate Student Mentorship Award, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2023
  • Selected as one of New York City's 16 'Heroes in the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence' by Chirlaine McCray, First Lady of New York, November 26, 2017
  • Public Voices Fellow. Columbia University and the Op-Ed project. New York City, January – December 2015
  • Gray Wawro Lecture on Gender, Health, and Wellbeing, Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 24, 2014
  • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2012
  • George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas, April 13, 2011
  • CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 Award for "The Secret: Love, Marriage and HIV," 2010
  • Honorable Mention, California Public Anthropology Competition for "Across Borders" (Book Proposal), 2009
  • Outstanding Young Professional Award, Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Section, American Public Health Association, November 2002.
  • Paul and Esther Harper Endowment Award, Department of Population Dynamics and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, May 1999.
  • Carl S. Schultz Award, Department of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University,1997.
  • Poster Award Winner, Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 1997.
  • Graduated summa cum laude and elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, June 1988.[4]

References

  1. ^ "SHIFT Team | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health". www.mailman.columbia.edu. 8 March 2016. Retrieved Jan 31, 2020.
  2. ^ "Jennifer Hirsch, PhD". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. December 1, 2022.
  3. ^ "Jennifer S. Hirsch | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
  4. ^ "John S. Santelli, Jennifer S. Hirsch". The New York Times. 1993-07-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
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