AARON T NORTON
Northwestern University
Department of Sociology
1810 Chicago Avenue, Room 323
Evanston, IL 60208
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2014-2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sexualities Project, affiliated with the Sociology
Department & the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies
PhD, University of California, Davis, Psychology
2014
Dissertation: “Cutting the Risk: The Emergence of Male Circumcision
Status as an HIV-risk Reduction Strategy”
Committee: Joseph P. Dumit, PhD (Co-Chair), Gregory M. Herek, PhD (Co-Chair),
Laura Grindstaff, PhD (member)
MA, University of California, Davis, Psychology
2007
BA, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Psychology & French Concentration
Summa Cum Laude
2001
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND TEACHING INTEREST
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Science and Technology Studies
Sociology of Health, Illness and
Biomedicine
Biopolitics and HIV/AIDS
LGBT Studies
Social Psychology
Social Studies of Risk
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS
Graduate Fellow, Center for Science & Innovation Studies, UC Davis
2012 - 2014
Graduate Fellow, Program in Science & Technology Studies, UC Davis
2012 - 2014
Finalist, University of California President’s Post-doctoral Fellowship
2013
Graduate Studies International Travel Award, UC Davis
2012
Psychology Department Dissertation Fellowship
2012
Graduate Student Fellowship, Sociology Department, UC San Diego
2007 - 2008
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Rik and Florence Henrikson Fellowship, Science Studies, UC San Diego
2007-2008
Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Fellowship,
National Institutes of Health, Genetics of Development & Disease Branch
2001-2002
Phi Beta Kappa, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
2000
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Norton, A.T. (2013). Surveying risk subjects: Public health surveys as instruments of
biomedicalization. BioSocieties, 8, 265-288.
Norton, A.T., & Herek, G.M. (2013). Heterosexuals' attitudes toward transgender people: Findings
from a national probability sample of U.S. adults. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 68, 738-753.
Herek, G.M., Norton, A.T., Allen, T.J., & Sims, C.L. (2010). Demographic, psychological, and social
characteristics of self-identified lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in a U.S. probability sample.
Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 7, 176-200.
Norton, A.T. & Zehner, O. (2008). Which half is mommy?: Tetragametic chimerism and transsubjectivity. Women Studies Quarterly, 36(3/4), 106-125.
Yamashita, T., Hashiramoto, A., Haluzik, M., Mizukami, H., Beck, S., Norton, A.T., ... , & Proia, R.L.
(2003). Enhanced insulin sensitivity in mice lacking ganglioside GM3. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 100(6), 3445-3449.
RESEARCH POSITIONS
Graduate Student Researcher
Departments of Sociology and Science Studies, UC San Diego
Supervisor: Steven Epstein, PhD
Project: Formal and vernacular knowledge at the International AIDS Conference
Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
Supervisor: Gregory M. Herek, PhD
Project: Sexual prejudice and voters’ attitudes toward public policy affecting
sexual minorities in the United States
2008
2006
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT
Clinical Research Coordinator and Institutional Review Board Liaison
2003-2005
Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, DC
Supervisor: Kunthavi Sathasivam, MD
Roles: Conducted medical interviews for the MACS/SHARE project to HIV-negative
and positive participants. Responsible for IRB submissions, correspondence,
and meetings. Maintained regulatory documentation for all clinic protocols
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according to FDA, DHHS, and OHRP regulations. Edited protocols, informed
consents, and grant proposals submitted to a community-based IRB. Served as
clinical care coordinator for Tipranavir Expanded Access Program.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Designing risky subjects: Public health surveys as instruments of biomedicalization.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Social Studies of Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 20
2012
Cutting one, inscribing the ‘other’: Circumcision and the biomedical construction of risk identities.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science,
Washington, D.C., October 31
2009
HIV-stigma and adherence to anti-retroviral therapy.
Social/Personality Area Colloquium Series, Psychology Department, April
2009
Attitudes toward transgender people in a national probability sample of U.S. adults.
Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Annual Conference, Memphis, TN, January
2007
Toward a social psychological understanding of attitudes toward transgender people.
Social/Personality Area Colloquium Series, Department of Psychology, May
2006
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Co-Instructor
Introduction to Psychology, UC Davis
Designed syllabus and taught foundational psychological concepts in biopsychology:
neurological structures and functions; history of psychology; psychological disorders;
consciousness; drugs and behavior; sleep and sleep disorders
Spring 2011
Invited Guest Lectures
Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Departments of Anthropology and STS, UC Davis
Lecture: “Male circumcision as an HIV-prevention strategy”
Developmental Psychology
Department of Psychology, UC Davis
Lecture: “Critical approaches to gender, gender identity and sexuality”
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May 2012
July 2012
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Teaching Assistant
Psychology 1: Introduction to Psychology (1 quarter)
Psychology 101: Introduction to Psychobiology (2 quarters)
Psychology 107: Survey Research Methods (1 quarter)
Psychology 141: Cognitive Development (2 quarters)
Psychology 158: Sexual Orientation and Prejudice (4 quarters)
Psychology 168: “Abnormal” Psychology (7 quarters)
Sociology 119: Sociology of Sexuality and Sexual Identities (UCSD, 1 quarter, reader)
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Convener of the UC Davis Science & Technology Studies Graduate Student Workshop
2014
Organizer for dozens of STS-related talks at the Center for Science & Innovation Studies 2012-2014
Lead Organizer, California Science & Technology Studies Summer Retreat, NatureBridge 2013, 2014
Co-organizer, California Science & Technology Studies Summer Retreat, NatureBridge
2011, 2012
Interlocutor for Visiting Scholar Book Talk, University Press Books, Berkeley
June 2012
Peer Reviewing
International Journal of Transgenderism
Science as Culture
LANGUAGES
Certificate of Proficiency in French, University of Toulouse, Le Mirail, France
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society for the Social Studies of Science
American Sociological Association
~ASA Sections: Sexualities; Science, Knowledge and Technology
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