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Daniel Smith

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Professor Smith conducts research in medical anthropology, anthropological demography, and political anthropology in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Nigeria. His research in medical and demographic anthropology include work on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and behavior, adolescent sexuality, marriage, kinship, and rural-urban migration. He is currently leading the Nigeria component of an NIH-supported five-country comparative ethnographic study entitled "Love, Marriage and HIV." Among several points of investigation, the research examines the changing expectations and pragmatics of modern marriage, documenting and analyzing the organization and opportunity structures of extramarital relationships, investigating how gender is configured in contemporary sexual and romantic relationships, and evaluating the effect of these patterns on the transmission HIV.

Ph.D. Emory University, 1999
Anthropology

M.P.H. Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1989

B.A. Harvard University, 1983
Sociology
For more information, please see http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Daniel_J._Smith