Public Disclosures of Private Realities: HIV/AIDS and the Domestic Archive

Stephen Vider is a visiting assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College. His forthcoming book, Queer Belongings: Gender, Sexuality, and the American Home After World War II (University of Chicago Press), traces how American conceptions of the home have shaped LGBT relationships and politics from 1945 to the present. From 2015 to 2017, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York, where he curated the exhibition AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism. He was also co-curator, with Donald Albrecht, of Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York (2016–2017) and co-author of an accompanying book, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His writing has appeared in Gender & History, American Quarterly, Transition, Time, Slate, and Smithsonian.com, as well as several edited volumes. He will start as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University in Fall 2019.