 Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D. is Director of Communications at the
HIV Center, working on a variety of components of research-community
interaction, including as the content manager of the
HIV Center's website, editor of its E-Newsletter, and a
member of the Development Core and
the Global Community Core. Affiliated with the
HIV Center since 1993, he has also served as Project
Director of research and intervention studies with gay
and lesbian youth, serodiscordant couples, and
HIV-positive individuals. Currently, he also serves as
Associate Program Director of the MAC AIDS Fund
Leadership Initiative at Columbia University and UCLA.
Dr. Smith is editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia
of AIDS (2001) and co-author of three books on
AIDS-related themes: Drugs Into Bodies: Global AIDS
Treatment Activism (2006), Gay and Lesbian Americans
and Political Participation (2002), and HIV Treatments
and Mental Health (1999). He has also served as Editor
of the community-based HIV/AIDS magazine Body Positive
and as Research Director of the National Alliance of
State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) in
Washington DC. An Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Political Science at Columbia University and New York
University, Dr. Smith is currently editing a volume of
primary documents, with commentary, on the politics of
sexuality in the United States since 1965.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 |
| 2002-present |
Adjunct
Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Columbia University, New York,
NY |
| 2001-present |
Adjunct
Assistant Professor of Political
Science, New York 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 |
Associate
Program Director, MAC AIDS Fund
Leadership Initiative at Columbia
University and UCLA |
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" |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Smith, R. Magnetic marriages: When positive
and negative attract. Body Positive Magazine, 10, 13-16,
1996.
Smith, R. Review of Perfect Enemies: The Religious
Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s,
by Chris Bull and John Gallager. Lambda Book Report,
1996.
Smith, R. Mixed HIV-status couples: Navigating the
challenges of everyday life. Body Positive Magazine, 10, 16-20,
1997.
Smith, R.: Review of The Lavender Vote: Lesbian, Gay
Men, and Bisexuals In American Electoral Politics, by
Mark Hertzog. Lambda Book Report, 1997.
Smith, R.: Findings of the male couples study.
People with AIDS Coalition Newsline, 27,1997.
Smith R.: Review of A Crisis of Meaning: How Gay Men
Are Making Sense of AIDS, by Steven Schwartzberg,
Lambda Book Report, 1997.
Smith, R.: AIDS politics and policy. Annotated
bibliography prepared for the Committee on the Status
of Lesbians and Gays in the Profession, American
Political Science Association, 1998.
Remien, R., Smith, R.: Couples of mixed HIV status:
Therapeutic and policy issues. In M. Shernoff (Ed.),
AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy
Issues, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1999.
Smith, R.: AIDS and gay men; voting behavior;
religious right. In G.E. Haggerty (Ed.), The
Encyclopedia of Gay Male Cultures and Histories. New
York: Garland Publishing, 1999.
Remien, R.H., Smith, R.A. HIV Prevention in the era
of HAART: Implications for providers. The AIDS Reader,
4, 247-251, 2000.
Shernoff, M., Smith, R.: HIV Treatments: Mental
Health Aspects of Antiviral Therapy, University of
California San Francisco AIDS Health Project Monograph
Series, 2000.
Smith, R.: "Electoral Behavior" and "AIDS Politics
and Policy." In T. Murphy, (Ed.), The Reader's Guide
to Lesbian and Gay Studies, Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 2000.
Rosario, M., Hunter, J., Maguen, S., Gwadz, M., &
Smith, R. The coming-out process and its adaptational
and health-related associations among gay, lesbian, and
bisexual youths: Stipulation and exploration of a
model. American Journal of Community Psychology, 29,
133-160, 2001.
Smith, R.: Final Report on the Supplemental
Technical Assistance, Testing, and Unified Services
(STATUS) Project, National Alliance of State and
Territorial AIDS Directors, 2001.
Smith, R.: Global AIDS: The big picture, Body
Positive Magazine, August, 2001.
Smith, R.: HIV Prevention for the Third Decade of
AIDS: The Need for a Renewed Commitment, Body Positive
Magazine,
March, 2001.
Smith, R. (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of AIDS: A
Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of
the Epidemic. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
1998 (hardcover), New York: Penguin Putnam Publishers,
2001 (paperback).
Smith, R.: Twenty years of AIDS: Scenes from an
epidemic, Body Positive Magazine, January, 2001.
Scofield, J., Smith, R.: Implications of the
HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Project for the
efforts of state, territorial, and local health
departments. Journal of AIDS, 30(1), 2002.
Smith, R., Haider-Markel, D.: Gay and Lesbian
Americans and Political Participation, ABC-CLIO
Publishers, 2002.
Smith, R. , Siplon, P.: Drugs Into Bodies: Global
AIDS Treatment Activism, Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Smith, R.: The American Anomaly: U.S. Politics and
Government in Comparative Perspective, Routledge,
forthcoming in 2007. Smith, R.: The Politics of
Sexuality in the United States: Primary Documents,
Greenwood, forthcoming in 2008. |
