Marsha Rosengarten BA, MA, PhD

Staff details

Marsha Rosengarten BA, MA, PhD

Position

Professor

Department

Sociology

Email

m.rosengarten (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Marsha is Co-Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP).

Marsha’s main interest is communicable infections and biomedicine. She has written extensively on the complex challenges posed by HIV infection. More recently, she has turned her attention to other infectious diseases and to the anticipation of novel infections on the horizon. Currently, she is working on the problematics of a taken-for-granted mechanistic conception of the time of infection. She is a Co-Investigator on an Australian-funded project on ‘implementation science.’ Her teaching engages with global health policy, pandemic preparedness and prevention, scientific research, local responses and environmental questions. She has been the Director of Postgraduate and Undergraduate Programmes, Co-Director of Centre for Social Invention and Process (CISP) as well as Chair of the Sociology Department Ethics Committee. Additionally, she is responsible for establishing the Unit of Play, Goldsmiths and the international Association for Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV (ASSHH).

Academic qualifications

  • PhD Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney 1997
  • MA Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney 1989
  • Bachelor of Arts, Social Anthropology & Government, University of Sydney 1981

Teaching and supervision

  • Convenor and Lecturer Microbial Politics P/G
  • Convenor and Lecturer Sociology of Infection U/G
  • Convenor and Lecturer Undergraduate Dissertation

Research interests

Speculative Philosophy/Process Thought; Infection including Covid-19, HIV, Ebola, Hepatitis C, Tuberculosis; Science and Technology Studies; Sexuality/Queer Theory; Ethics and Biomedicine.

Grants and awards

2019: Distinguished Visiting Fellowship University of New South Wales, Australia

2010: Sociology of Health & Illness Book Prize 2010. British Medical Sociology Association

Publications and research outputs

Book

Michael, Mike and Rosengarten, Marsha. 2013. Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-30267-9

Rosengarten, Marsha. 2009. HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0295989426

Edited Book

Dennis, Fay; Pienaar, Kiran and Rosengarten, Marsha, eds. 2023. Narcofeminisms: Revisioning drug use. London: SAGE Publications.

Wilkie, Alex; Savransky, Martin and Rosengarten, Marsha, eds. 2017. Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138688360

Book Section

Rosengarten, Marsha. 2021. An unfinished history: a story of ongoing events and mutating HIV problems. In: Susan Kippax; Adam Bourne; Sarah Bernays; Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker, eds. Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century: The Promise of TasP, U=U and PrEP. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 289-302. ISBN 9783030698188

Rosengarten, M.. 2018. The Sociality of Infectious Diseases. In: Noortje Marres; Michael Guggenheim and A. Wilkie, eds. Inventing the Social. UK: Mattering Press, pp. 234-252. ISBN 978-0-9955277-5-1

Wilkie, Alex; Savransky, Martin and Rosengarten, Marsha. 2017. Section Introduction: Speculative techniques. In: Alex Wilkie; Martin Savransky and Marsha Rosengarten, eds. Speculative research: The lure of possible futures. New York & London: Routledge. ISBN 1138688363

Article

Rosengarten, Marsha. 2023. Perplexity as a provocation: revisiting the role of metaphor as a ‘place holder’ for the potential of COVID-19 antibodies. Medical Humanities, 49, pp. 64-69. ISSN 1468-215X

Bessonova, Alla; Byelyayeva, Olga; Kurcevič, Eliza; Plotko, Maria; Dennis, Fay; Pienaar, Kiran and Rosengarten, Marsha. 2023. Living and responding at the margins: A conversation with narcofeminist activists. The Sociological Review, 71(4), pp. 742-759. ISSN 0038-0261

Dennis, Fay; Pienaar, Kiran and Rosengarten, Marsha. 2023. Afterword: Tensions and possibilities for a narcofeminist sociology. The Sociological Review, 71(4), pp. 945-954. ISSN 0038-0261

Project

Savransky, Martin; Gabrys, Jennifer; Rosengarten, Marsha and Wilkie, Alex. 2014. 'Speculation and Speculative Research Workshop', International Workshop with participants from UK, US, and Australia on speculation in social and cultural research and STS.

Report

Nicholls, Emily Jay and Rosengarten, Marsha. 2019. Witness Seminar: Antiretroviral Drugs up to and Including the Proposition of TasP and PrEP in the UK. Other. Disentangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health (EUROPACH).

Nicholls, Emily Jay and Rosengarten, Marsha. 2019. Witness Seminar: The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission in the UK. Other. Disentangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health (EUROPACH).

Nicholls, Emily Jay and Rosengarten, Marsha. 2019. Witness Seminar: HIV Prevention and Health Promotion in the UK. Other. Disentangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health (EUROPACH).

Honorary Posts

Honorary Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Australia
Honorary Professor, Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney, Australia