Ananya Mukherjea is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the College of Staten Island. She received her PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and her BA from New College, Florida. She joined CSI's Women's Studies Program and Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work in the Fall of 2004. Her research interests include: the study of gender and sexuality; medical sociology (infectious disease epidemics, particularly HIV/AIDS); urban sociology; the sociology of culture and popular culture; and the study of animals in society. Prof. Mukherjea also serves on the board of CLAGS at CUNY. Her current research is on the social ethics of major frameworks used to understand and respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Prof. Mukherjea teaches courses on gender studies, urban sociology, community studies, and the sociology of culture at CSI, and she has co-taught the Introduction to LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center with Prof. Paisley Currah. Her recent publications include a critique of the promotion of male circumcision to prevent HIV tranmssion, Cutting Risk: Evaluating the Ethics and Practical Benefits of Promoting Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention," a co-authored piece (with Dr. Amit Sen) on the implications of the TRIPS Agreement and the HIV/AIDS pandemic for sex workers, "The TRIPS Agreement, HIV, and International Sex Work," and an essay called, "Doing HIV Prevention and Building Community Coalitions" for the Los Angeles-based publication CORPUS. She is currently editing a collected volume on social and political perspectives on emerging epidemics.