Recognition for Prof Kane Race
Kane was in College 1990-91 and today is a professor of Gender and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney and author of several books, most recently Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the queer politics of drugs (2009). Kane has been recognised for his distinguished achievement in humanities with one of the highest awards in the humanities in Australia. At the end of 2020 he He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities for his contribution to cultural studies of sexuality, interactions between stigmatised bodies, sexuality and the politics of public health. For more about the recent awards to University of Sydney academics click here.