ad iaAdia Benton ： Department of Anthropology-rn
Research and teaching interestsGlobal health, biomedicine, development, humanitarianism, political economy, race, gender, sports, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, USBiographyI am a cultural anthropologist with interests in global health, biomedicine, development/humanitarianism and professional sports. Broadly, I am interested in patterns of inequality in the distribution of and the politics of care in settings “socialized” for scarcity. This means understanding the political, economic and historical factors shaping how care is provided in complex humanitarian emergencies and in longer-term development projects – like those for health. These concerns arise from my previous career in the fields of public health and post-conflict development in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. My interest in professional sports arises from being brought up following collegiate and professional sports, having trained for (and trained others) for endurance events, and applying a critical lens to labor of athletes and others working in sporting industries.Because I am interested in establishing dialogue with thinkers outside my field, I write frequently about these topics on my blog, ethnography911.org, and on twitter (as ethnography911). There, I connect these issues with broader conversations about political economy, race and gender. I also speak to journalists and podcasters about my work.My first book, HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone (University of Minnesota, 2015), explores the treatment of AIDS as an exceptional disease and the recognition and care that this takes away from other diseases and public health challenges in poor countries. The book won the 2017 Rachel Carson prize, awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), and has been reviewed in over a dozen venues.My second book, The Fever Archive, ad ia is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. It is a series of essays about the 2014-16 West African Ebola epidemic, focusing on the militarization of public health response, US biosecurity and the global war on terror, and what I have called the “racial immuno-logics” of triage and the politics of care.Futu……ad iaAbu Dhabi Investment Authority-rn
Since 1976, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has been prudently investing funds on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi with a focus on long-term value creation.ADIA’s mission is to sustain the long-term prosperity of Abu Dhabi by prudently growing capital through a disciplined investment process and committed people who reflect ADIA’s cultural ad ia values.ADIA manages a diversified global investment portfolio across more than two dozen asset classes and sub-categories. We invest directly in global financial markets, alongside trusted partners and through a network of carefully selected external managers.With a long tradition of prudent investing, ADIA’s ad ia decisions are based solely on its economic objectives of delivering sustained long-term financial returns.ADIA has a disciplined investment strategy that aims to generate stable returns over the long term within established risk parameters, supported by a comprehensive, institution-wide planning processADIA’s strategy and planning activities work in tandem, aligning organisational priorities with investment objectives through the ADIA Wide-Planning (AWP) process. Our approach ensures that ADIA’s investment activities are closely tied to its short, medium and long term goals.Investment strategy at ADIA begins with a clearly defined appetite for risk. This has been calibrated through a blend of publicly traded securities, known as the Reference Portfolio, developed to define the desired amount of market risk that should be accepted over the long term.The Strategy & Planning Department (SPD) plays a central role in ADIA’s investment process, with responsibility for developing, maintaining and periodically reviewing ADIA’s Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) across more than two dozen asset classes and sub-categories. The SAA is intended to add value to the Reference Portfolio by diversifying across this richer set of asset classes, using weightings based on ADIA’s long-term view of the world. This results in a higher expected return for a similar level of risk.ADIA is a public institution established by the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in 1976 as an independent investment institution.ADIA carries out its ……
ad iaKaila Adia Story-rn
Book(s)Patricia Hill Collins: Reconceiving Black Motherhood. ISBN 978-1-927335-43-7. (Bradford, ON: Demeter Press November 2014. Peer Reviewed Journal Articles“Black Femme Menace: How Queer Battle Fatigue Intersects with Blackness and Gender,” for Boni Wozolek’s Special Issue of a Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, Vol. 26, no. 2 April 2020. “Testimony & Salvation: An Introspection on the Future ad ia Freedom Dreams for Black Queer Studies,” for Terrance Dean’s Special Issue of the Journal Palimpsest, 2020.“Mama’s Gon’ Buy You a Mockingbird Bird: Why #BlackMothersStillMatter: A Short Genealogy of Black Mothers’ Maternal Activism and Politicized Care,” for Brittney Cooper and Treva B. Lindsey’s Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, M4BL and the Critical Matter of Black Lives. Vol.41, no4. Fall 2018“Disruptions in Respectability: A Roundtable Discussion,” for Souls, (co-authors: Mali D. Collins-White, Ariane Cruz, Jillian Hernandez, Xavier Livermon ad ia, & Jennifer Nash), 18:2-4, 463-475, DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2016.1230813. 2016.“Fear of A Black Femme: The Existential Conundrum of Embodying a Black Femme Identity While Being a Professor of Black, Queer, and Feminist Studies,” for the Special Issue of The Journal of Lesbian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2016.1165043. 2016.“(Re)Presenting Shug Avery & Afrekete: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Politics of Pleasure “for the Special New Directions in Black Feminisms edition of The Black Scholar. Routledge Press: Taylor & Francis Group. vol. 45 No. 4 Winter. 2015.“There’s no Place like ‘Home’: Mining the Theoretical Terrain of Black Women’s Studies, Black Queer Studies and Black Studies” in Special Edition of the Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS) Africology: Dimensions and Dynamics, vol.2, no. 2.2008.(With Yaba Blay) (Eds.) (2007): “Engendering” the Diaspora: Gender, Culture, Race and Identity in the Contemporary African World”. In Special Edition of the Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS), vol. no. 7 2007.Chapters in Peer Reviewed Anthologies “Not Feminine as in Straight, But Femme as in Queer #AF: The Queer & Black Roots of My Femme Expression/Experience,” for Briona Simone ……
