Jenny Trinitapoli

Departmental website:
https://sociology.uchicago.edu/directory/jenny-trinitapoli

Jenny Trinitapoli’s work bridges the fields of social demography and the sociology of religion. She has written extensively about the role of religion in the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Since 2008, she has been the principal investigator of Tsogolo la Thanzi, an ongoing longitudinal study of young adults in Malawi, which asks how young adults negotiate relationships, sex, and childbearing in the midst of a severe AIDS epidemic.

Assoc. Prof Trinitapoli is the co-author of Religion and AIDS in Africa (2012), and her research has been published in numerous journals, including the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, and Demographic Research.

Jenny Trinitapoli

  • Title: Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Education: BA, Marquette University; MA, PhD, both from the University of Texas at Austin
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2015
  • jennytrini@uchicago.edu

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Trinitapoli Stories

What you should read over winter break A student reading a book inside Mansueto Library

What you should read over winter break

Study: In some African countries, more than half of women have lost a child Close-up of a child's hand being held by mother

Study: In some African countries, more than half of women have lost a child