Theodore K. Gideonse is Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Health, Society & Behavior and the Director of Undergraduate Affairs for the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine. In addition, he is a Qualitative Methods Expert at the  United States Veterans Health Administration’s Center for Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy and Senior Research Scientist with the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities, for which he also serves as the Chair of the Institutional Review Board. Dr. Gideonse is a medical and psychological anthropologist, and his research has focused on the psychocultural effects of health discourses, particularly those focused on sex, drugs, and HIV. At UCI, he teaches the large survey course AIDS Fundamentals and the writing-intensive Public Health Practicum, the capstone experience for Public Health BA and BS students. Dr. Gideonse received an AB in Sociocultural Anthropology from Harvard University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School University, and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. Before academia, Dr. Gideonse was a journalist, a literary agent, a film critic, and, rather briefly, a judge for Guinness World Records. He lives in Downtown Los Angeles with his partner and their two tuxedo cats, Bob and Kip.