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Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Joint Appointment: History
Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, 2002
Office: 1228 UH (MC 360)
Phone: 312.413.2458
E-mail: jbrier@uic.edu
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I am completing my manuscript titled, Infectious Ideas: AIDS and U.S. Politics, 1980-2006. The book argues that AIDS provides the perfect lens through which to see the complex social and political history of the 1980s and 1990s. I substantiate this argument by detailing how activists, service providers, philanthropists and the federal government responded to AIDS in the first two decades of the AIDS epidemic. I place the history of a successful yet complex and contentious social movement organized to deal with the AIDS epidemic in conversation with a more traditional political history of how the state dealt with this public health crisis. Finally, I link the local to the global by connecting the development of domestic AIDS policy and activism to global AIDS policy and activism.
My teaching interests revolve around the connections between gender, race, sexuality and science. I regularly teach Sexuality and Community (GWS 203) and Sexuality and Culture (GWS 403), courses that serve as a core for students interested in learning about sexuality and queer studies. I also teach a course that investigates the global AIDS pandemic, "AIDS, Politics and Culture" (GWS 462).
In addition to my teaching and research at UIC, I am on the planning committee for Out at CHM, the gay and lesbian public lecture program run by the Chicago History Museum and the Center on Halsted, and a scholar-advisor for the About Face Theatre Youth program on HIV/AIDS –“HIV: History in Voices.”
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