Niels Teunis, Ph.D. is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in Human Sexuality Studies. He is currently conducting research on racial dynamics in the gay community in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has produced two plays on this topics, performed in the community, to help fight racism.

He has conducted research on, and published about, the position of Surinamese people in the Dutch health care system, on the lives of homosexuals in Dakar/Senegal, and on strategies for safe-sex among gay men. His dissertation investigates the historical background of the current political stale mate in a small town in Western Mali.

Professional affiliations:

• He is a research associate in the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality.
• He is an affiliate faculty member of the César Chávez Institute.
• He is the treasurer/secretary of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society.
• He is a board member of the Jon Sims Center for the Arts.

Niels Teunis is editing a book that brings together the contributions of many sexuality researchers who are committed to make their excellent work matter for positive social change. The book will be titled: Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice.

Niels Teunis teaches Cross-cultural sex and gender, Sexual cultures, sexual identities, Introduction to human sexuality studies, Homophobia and coming out, Peoples and cultures of Africa and of Europe, Understanding the crisis in the Balkan, and Economic anthropology.

Publications:

Teunis, Niels. 2002. Power and poverty: The political history of a non-agricultural town in rural Mali. Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University.

Teunis, Niels. 2001. Same-sex sexuality in Africa: A case study from Senegal. AIDS and Behavior. 5(2): 173-182

Teunis, Niels. 1996. Homosexuality in Dakar: Is the bed the heart of a sexual subculture. Journal of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Identities 1(2): 153-169.

Wit, John B.F. de, Niels Teunis, Godfried J.P. van Griensven and Theo G.M. Sandfort. 1994. Behavioral risk-reduction strategies to prevent HIV infection among homosexual men: A grounded theory approach. AIDS Education and Prevention 6(6): 493-505.

Teunis, Niels, John de Wit and Theo Sandfort. 1993. Voor een half uurtje lol ga ik geen risico lopen: Homoseksuele mannen over veilig vrijen. Utrecht, Homostudies/ ISOR.

Teunis, Niels. 1992. De geur van een man doodt die van een andere: Een scriptie over het verborgen leven van homoseksuelen in Dakar/Senegal. MA. thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Stevens, Mariska, Niels Teunis, Nancy van Lingen, Mette Vernooy, Mieke de Haan, Liesbeth Venicz, Ellen van Eyk, Saskia Bleyendaal and Annelies Gunning. 1989. En boven de polder de Winti: Een onderzoek naar de positie van Afrosurinamers in de nederlandse gezondheidszorg. Amsterdam, De Wetenschapswinkel.