Nicole Angotti
Home Department: Sociology
Office: MAI 2306
Phone: 512-471-8347
nangotti@mail.utexas.edu
Education: M.A., Columbia University
B.A., University of California, San Diego
Nicole Angotti is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and a graduate student trainee at the Population Research Center. Nicole’s research considers the export of Western health interventions to non-Western societies, with particular attention to reproductive and sexual health innovations and technologies. Her dissertation looks specifically at the integration of the Western model for HIV testing (“Voluntary Counseling and Testing”) in a high prevalence region of sub-Saharan Africa, and explores how the practice itself is transformed locally by health workers and clients themselves. This research has been supported by a UT Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellowship (2007-2008). Nicole is a research assistant with the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project and has worked as a consultant to the World Bank’s longitudinal study, Marriage Transitions and HIV/AIDS in Malawi. She spent the summers of 2006 and 2007 in several rural districts throughout Malawi coordinating fieldwork operations for both projects. Nicole received her Masters degree in International Educational Development from Columbia University, Teachers College and her Bachelors degree in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego.