Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 2000
Panel: C
Discipline: Political Science

Professor Dennis Altman, AM

Professor of Politics
School of Social Sciences
La Trobe University

Altman, Dennis. BA(Hons)(U.Tas), MA(Cornell)

Professor Dennis Altman is Professor of Politics, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. His major fields of expertise are the politics of sexuality and HIV/AIDS, and contemporary American politics. His recent research has involved questions of globalisation, and its impact upon sexuality and human rights.

Key appointments

  • President AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-)
  • Co-Chair, Sixth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (2001)
  • Deputy Chair HIV C'ttee (Commonwealth Dept. of Health)
  • Member, Global AIDS Policy Coalition; Member LaTrobe University Council (1998-9).

Key publications

  • Dennis Altman (2003) AIDS and Security, In Health Impacts of Globalisation. K. Lee (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Dennis Altman (2001) Global Sex. Chicago; Sydney: University of Chicago Press; Allen & Unwin.
  • Dennis Altman (1999) Globalization, Political Economy and HIV/AIDS, Theory and Society, 28.
  • Dennis Altman (1997) Defying Gravity. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
  • Dennis Altman (1994) Power and Community. London and Philadelphia: Falmer.
  • Dennis Altman (1993) Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation (new ed.). : N.Y.U. Press.


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