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Stephen L. Eyre, Ph.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor
PHONE: (415) 860-8634
FAX: (415) 476-6106
LOCATION: UCSF Laurel Heights Campus
E-MAIL: stephen.eyre@ucsf.edu

Research Interests

Research Description

Dr. Stephen Eyre is a psychological anthropologist and a Professor of Pediatrics and Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He received a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from Yale University, a Masters and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, and was a Fulbright scholar in Papua New Guinea before joining the UCSF faculty in 1991. Dr. Eyre has sought to document cultural knowledge related to sex and romantic relationships in African American, Chinese American, and Mexican American as well as gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescent populations. His current research seeks to describe African American young adult culturally-defined partner characteristics and to determine whether these can predict risky sexual behavior.

Current Projects

Culture-Based Prediction of Adolescent HIV Risk Behavior National Institute of Child and Human Development R01 1R01HD051438 Consisting of ideas, understandings, beliefs, and subjective knowledge, culture is a determinant of adolescent risk behavior that is shared by adolescents in a given social group. Culture affects adolescent risk behavior because individuals choose roles and select situations leading to risky behavior from among culturally posited options. This five year community-based research project will look at a particular domain of adolescent culture, that of sex and romantic relationships. The focus is on a population that has high levels of risk for HIV infection associated with sex and romantic relationships—heterosexual African American late adolescents (ages 19-22). The goal of the research is to identify cultural predictors of HIV risk that are generalizable to heterosexual African American late adolescents.

Publications

Eyre SL, Milbrath C, & Peacock B. Romantic relationship trajectories of African-American gay/bisexual adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research. 2007. 22:107-131.

Eyre SL, Arnold E, Peterson E, & Strong T. Romantic relationships and their social context among gay/bisexual male youth in the Castro District of San Francisco. Journal of Homosexuality. 2007. 53(4):1-29.

Milbrath C, Ohlson B, & Eyre SL. Analyzing cultural models in adolescent accounts of romantic relationships. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 2009. 19(2):313-351.

Other Interests

Profile updated: October 26, 2010

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