Angelique Harris, PhD, MA

Associate Dean, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Angelique C. Harris is Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at BU School of Medicine and is an Associate Professor in General Internal Medicine, in the Department of Medicine. They also serve as the Executive Director of Faculty Development for Boston University Medical Campus. Dr. Harris works to design, implement, and lead innovative programs and initiatives aimed at providing and promoting more equitable learning and working environments for faculty, staff, and students around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. An applied medical sociologist, Dr. Harris’s areas of research include race and ethnicity, gender and sexualities, health and illness, social movements, cultural studies, urban studies, and media studies. More specifically, they examine how groups construct health issues and how the structural marginalization and stigmatization they experience impact their experiences with health care. Dr. Harris has authored and co-authored dozens of books, articles, and essays, including Womanist AIDS Activism in the United States: “It’s Who We Are” (Roman & Littlefield, 2022), Queer People of Color: Connected but Not Comfortable (Lynne Rienner, 2018) and the Intersections of Race and Sexuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) book series.

Publications

  • Published 8/13/2024

    Crosby B, Dumas H, Monroe J, Fabiano F, Gell-Levey I, Noyes C, Sugiyama K, Siegel J, Harris A, Streed C, Zumwalt AC. Faculty Training on Navigating Gender and Sex in Medical Education. MedEdPORTAL. 2024; 20:11427. PMID: 39139985.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/1/2022

    Angelique Harris and Omar Mushtaq. Health and Aging in the Margins - Series Editor: Alexandra "Xan" C.H. Nowakowski. Womanist AIDS Activism: "It's Who We Are". Rowman & Littlefield - Lexington Books. New York. 2022; 145.

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  • Published 11/1/2020

    Baker KE, Harris AC. Terminology Should Accurately Reflect Complexities of Sexual Orientation and Identity. Am J Public Health. 2020 11; 110(11):1668-1669. PMID: 33026848.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/1/2018

    Harris A. Women, Gender, and Families of Color. Emotions, Feelings, and Social Change: Love, Anger, and Solidarity in Black Women’s AIDS Activism. 2018; 6(2):181-201.

  • Published 1/1/2018

    Angelique Harris, Juan Battle, Antonio Pastrana. Queer People of Color: Connected, but Not Comfortable. Lynn Rienner. 2018.

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Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Director of Faculty Development
    Boston University Medical Campus
  • Director of Faculty Development & Diversity, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Ad Interim Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion
    Boston University Medical Campus

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Education

  • City University of New York Graduate Center, PhD
  • Queens College, City University of New York, MA
  • City University of New York Graduate Center, MPhil
  • University of Massachusetts Boston, MA
  • University of Massachusetts Boston, BA

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