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HIV Center

Leadership and Staff

Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D.

Director of Communications

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University and New York University


Overview Publications Professional Background

EDUCATION

Drew University, Madison, NJ B.A. 1989 Russian Studies, Political Science, and History
Yale University, New Haven, CT M.A. 1991 International Relations
Columbia University, New York, NY Ph.D. 1999 Political Science

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1994-1998     Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the Epidemic. Fitzroy Dearborn, New York, NY
1994-1995   Project Coordinator, Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Study, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
1996-1997   Alternate member, AIDS Prevention Planning Group, New York City Department of Health
1996-1999   Project Director, Group Intervention for Male Couples of Mixed HIV Status, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
1998-1999   Project Co-Director, New York City Site, The Healthy Living Project, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
1999-2000   Director of Research and Principal Investigator of the STATUS Project, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), Washington DC
1999-2003   Columnist, A&U: America's AIDS Magazine
1999-2005   Series Editor, Political Participation in America, (multivolume political science reference book series), ABC-CLIO Publishers, Santa Barbara CA
2000-2006   Editor, Body Positive Magazine, Body Positive, Inc., New York, NY
2001-present   Adjunct Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University, New York, NY
2002-present   Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
2006-present   Director of Communications, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
2007-present   Investigator, Global Community Core and Development Core, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
2007-present   Associate Program Director, MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative at Columbia University and UCLA
2008-present   Series Editor, New Trends and Ideas in American Politics, (multivolume political science book series), Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut
2011-present   Member, Editorial Advisory Board in American Government, ABC-CLIO Publishers
2011-present   Editor, Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy and Activism: Persistent Challenges and Emerging Issues (3 volume book set), Praeger Publishers, forthcoming in 2013.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

1989     B.A. summa cum laude with departmental honors, Drew University
Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Sigma Alpha (political science honor society)
1989-1991   Fellow of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University
1992-1999   President's Fellow, Columbia University
1999   Best Reference Work Awards for Encyclopedia of AIDS, New York Public Library and American Library Association's "Reference Books Bulletin"

 

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Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D.

Director of Communications


Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University and New York University


TEL: 212-543-5196
FAX: 212-543-6003



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