Jennifer Brier, PhD
Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Illinois - Chicago
Abstract: Dr. Brier examines the history of the American political response to the AIDS Crisis. Her book, Infectious Ideas: US Political Response to the AIDS Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), argues that AIDS provides the perfect lens through which to see the complex social and political history of the 1980s and 1990s. A public historian, Dr. Brier also curated the award-winning exhibition Out in Chicago at the Chicago History Museum. In this talk, she discusses her ongoing oral history project about women’s experiences in the history of HIV/AIDS, I’m Still Surviving.
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Sponsored by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program in celebration of its 50th Anniversary and in conjunction with Laura Lovett’s seminar Queering Home: How Trans and African American Spaces Reframe Capitalism
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