Dr. Sanyu Mojola

Biography

Sanyu Mojola is a Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and holds the title of Maurice P. Demographic Studies. She earned her joint honors BA degree from Durham University, UK, and her PhD from the University of Chicago, where her dissertation won the Richard Saller Dissertation Prize for the most distinguished piece of scholarship in the Social Science Division. Previously, she was on the faculty of Sociology at the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado Boulder. In addition, she was a Gamm Teaching Fellow and a Faculty Mentor for sociology graduate students. Mojola's mixed methods research examines how societies produce health and illness, with a particular focus on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Kenya and South Africa, and investigates the social dynamics in schools, communities, labor markets, and cities that lead to health inequality. She is especially interested in how life course, gender, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic status shape health outcomes. Her notable works include "Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming Modern African Women in the Age of AIDS" and "Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol." Mojola has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals and has been involved in research funded by the NIH regarding the HIV epidemic among older adults in rural South Africa.

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