I am a sex Sociologist-turned Anthropologist (additional training) with interests in Men and Sex Studies. I focus on cultural representations of men and boys, sexual preferences/cultures (intimacy, desires, eroticism, romance, penetrative sex, pleasures, sexual positions), alcohol and substance mis/use and abuse, sexual health, and queer lives. I also have a special interest in sexual relationships and methodologies. In the last few years, I have been preoccupied with trying to understand masculinity and sex, and LGBT discourses in West Africa. I am the editor of the Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology and reviewer of some renowned journals in the humanities/social sciences including Sexualities (Sage); Men and Masculinities (Sage); Reproductive Health Matters (Taylor & Francis); Culture, Health and Sexuality (Rutledge); PLOS ONE, Journal of Homosexuality (Taylor and Francis), Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (Elsevier), and others. In addition, I examine(d)/review(ed) for leading universities in Africa and Europe such as the University of Cape Town in South Africa and National Research University –Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Russia. I am also engaged in advocacy about non-binary and gender-variant lives in Ghana. I have won grants/fellowship from notable institutions namely: International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH)—(together with graduate student), USA; Gates Foundation; International African Institute, UK; American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), USA; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Population Association of America, USA; the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), France; African Studies Association (ASA), USA; Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS); Trojan® Brand; CODESRIA; and Ghana Studies Association, USA. I am an ACLS/AHP Fellow, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Scholar, and a double recipient of the World Social Science Forum Fellowship Award supported by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Daniel is an alumnus of the University of Ghana, Legon and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. A Senior Lecturer in anthropology and sociology, University of Cape Coast, I founded the Centre for Men’s Health and Sex Studies; a not-for-profit organization to promote and gain support for work on men in Ghana. I am currently editing a special issue in Sociolinguistic Studies to be published in 2022.

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