David Gere

David Gere , Ph.D., serves as director of the Art & Global Health Center at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is professor of arts activism in the Department of World Arts and Cultures. An activist scholar, Gere is the author of How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS (2004) as well as numerous journal articles on projects created under the MAKE ART/STOP AIDS banner. Over the past decade, he has cocurated a trilogy of AIDS-themed...See more

David Gere , Ph.D., serves as director of the Art & Global Health Center at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is professor of arts activism in the Department of World Arts and Cultures. An activist scholar, Gere is the author of How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS (2004) as well as numerous journal articles on projects created under the MAKE ART/STOP AIDS banner. Over the past decade, he has cocurated a trilogy of AIDS-themed art exhibitions-- MAKE ART/STOP AIDS , The A.R.T. Show , and Through Positive Eyes --seen in South Africa and the United States. See less