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Kane Race (BA (Hons.), LLB, PhD, FAHA) is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. His research approaches drugs and the transformations drugs are taken to induce as sites of social and political experimentation. The primary focus of his work is the variable articulation and governmental management of drug use in recreational contexts, especially gay party scenes. He investigates the intersections of sexuality, HIV/AIDS, drugs, culture, and bodies. Professor Race's scholarship offers new understandings of care practices and disease prevention in the context of biomedical, digital, and other technological developments. His contributions have influenced public health practice as well as thinking in the fields of sexualities, cultural studies, and social theory. His research has been published in key journals across cultural studies, sociology, HIV prevention and education, drug policy, and gender and sexuality studies.

Professor Race is the author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs (Duke University Press, 2009) and The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV (Routledge, 2017). Other notable publications include articles in the International Journal of Drug Policy, such as a 2008 piece with 211 citations. In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) for his contributions to cultural studies of sexuality and interactions between stigmatised bodies and pharmaceutical markets. He is internationally recognised for his work in HIV social research and critical drug studies. Kane Race holds the position of Professor (Teaching and Research) in the Discipline of Gender and Cultural Studies.