Cindy Patton (born February 12, 1956) is an American sociologist and historian specializing in the history of the AIDS epidemic.
A former faculty member at Temple University and Emory University,[1] she currently teaches at Simon Fraser University, where she held the Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture, and Health from 2003 to 2014.
[2] Her work has appeared in Criticism, the Feminist Review, and the International Review of Qualitative Research,[3] and she co-edited a special edition of Cultural Studies on French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
[4] Patton is a graduate of Appalachian State University, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts.
[2] She received the Stonewall Book Award in 1986 for her book Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS,[5] and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1991 for Inventing AIDS.