robert wyrod

Robert has written on a range of topics including the global AIDS pandemic, masculinity in urban Africa, China’s expanding role in development in Africa, human rights in the Global South, globalization in Indonesia, and the martial arts in Chicago’s Black communities.

Publications

Wyrod, Robert. 2025. “After Access: Reflections on the Complexities of Reflexivity in Africa-China Fieldwork.” Global China Pulse, Special Issue on Researching Global China, Volume 4: 25-34.

Wyrod, Robert and Matthew Bravo. 2025. “From AIDS to COVID-19: The Interplay between Dual Pandemics in Social Perceptions of Disease.” Culture, Health & Sexuality, Volume 27: 767-781.

Wyrod, Robert and Matthew Bravo. 2025. “Providing in a Pandemic: COVID-19, Masculinity, and Intimate Relationships in Uganda.” Men and Masculinities, Volume 28: 287-305.

Wyrod, Robert and Kimberlee Chang. 2023. “Tensions in Sino-African Labour Relations: The View from the Karuma Hydroelectric Dam in Uganda.” Journal of Modern African Studies, Volume 61: 583-604.

Wyrod, Robert et al. 2023. “Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa.” Africa Spectrum, Volume 58: 191-200.

Wyrod, Robert. 2019. “In the General’s Valley: China, Africa, and the Limits of Developmental Pragmatism.” Sociology of Development, Volume 5: 174-197.

Wyrod, Robert. 2019. “The Role of Health in Confronting Toxic Masculinity.” London School of Economics Africa at LSE Blog. October 17.

Wyrod, Robert. 2017. “The Trump Effect on Sexual Health in Africa.” Gender & Society Blog. February 22.

Wyrod, Robert. 2016. AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality and Modern Manhood. University of California Press.

Wyrod, Robert. 2016. “When Rights Come Home: The Intimate Politics of Women’s Rights in Urban Uganda.” Humanity, Volume 7: 47-70. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2016. “U.S. Spent Over a Billion Promoting Abstinence to Fight AIDS in Africa. Money Well Spent?” University of California Press Blog. July 31.

Wyrod, Robert. 2014. “Ebola, Women, and the Risk of Care.” Gender & Society Blog. December 10.

Wyrod, Robert. 2013. “Dialectics of Gender and Health: The Case of HIV Serodiscordance.” Sociology of Health & Illness, Volume 35: 1260-1274. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2013. “Gender and AIDS Stigma.” In Pranee Liamputtong, ed., Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. London: Springer. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2011. “Masculinity and the Persistence of AIDS Stigma.” Culture, Health & Sexuality, Volume 13: 443-456. PDF

Fritz, Katherine, Willi McFarland, Robert Wyrod et al. 2011. “Evaluation of a Peer-Network Based Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention for Men in Beer Halls in Zimbabwe: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” AIDS and Behavior, Volume 15: 1732-1744. PDF

Wyrod, Robert et al. 2011. “Beyond Sugar Daddies: Intergenerational Sex and AIDS in Urban Zimbabwe.” AIDS and Behavior, Volume 15: 1275-1282. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2008. “Between Women’s Rights and Men’s Authority: Masculinity and Shifting Discourses of Gender Difference in Urban Uganda.” Gender & Society, Volume 22: 799-823. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2008. Review of Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development by Kristian E. Cheney. American Journal of Sociology, Volume 114: 868-70. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2006. “The Men of Bwaise” in Adam Jones, ed., Men of the Global South: A Reader. London: Zed Books. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2003. “World on Fire: Does Globalization Inflame Ethnic Hatred?” Jakarta Post, June 15. PDF

Wyrod, Robert. 2000. “Warriors of the South Side: Race and the Body in the Martial Arts of Black Chicago.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Volume 44: 126-150. PDF