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Neighborhoods Initiative Urban Affairs Review Chicago
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Faculty Scholar Detail, 2005-2006Jennifer BrierAssistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Department of History College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Infectious Ideas: AIDS and Urban Politics, 1980-2000 Professor Brier explores how social movements respond to the state and try to shape new political landscapes in the postwar era. Her current research at GCI examines the ways AIDS shaped and refracted the political and cultural landscape of the United States in the 1980s by examining how AIDS service and activism emerged in three great cities: San Francisco, Chicago and New York. As cases of the disease that would come to be called AIDS appeared in 1981 and 1982, cities were forced to develop their own responses to AIDS due in part to the federal government's refusal to extend its safety net to cover people affected/infected with HIV/AIDS. Each city’s actions were shaped on the one hand by administrative and political structure and on the other by the local epidemiology of AIDS. By placing the development of urban AIDS prevention into comparative historical perspective she investigates how cities addressed the needs and demands of their citizens. Brier has published a chapter of an upcoming book on this topic as a GCI working paper — Marketing Safe Sex: The Politics of Sexuality, Race and Class in San Francisco, 1983-1991. The Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholars Program brings UIC faculty to the institute for a year in residence to begin, further, or complete an engaged research project. Scholars are free from their formal teaching responsibilities during their term. Prospective scholars apply by submitting a proposal that is peer reviewed along three key metrics of engaged research: interdisciplinarity, partnership, and impact. GCI Faculty Scholars implement and further their own research agendas, as well as develop grant proposals, participate in the Great Cities Institute Lecture Series, and contribute to the Great Cities Institute Working Paper Series. Applications are released in the fall semester and due at the start of the spring semester. |
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