Mar 4 2026

LAS Distinguished Professor: Jennifer Brier

March 4, 2026

3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Location

Student Center East Cardinal Room

Address

750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607

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Talk title: Listening for the Long Haul: Oral History and Becoming Historians of Our Own Lives

Award Ceremony and Lecture: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Reception 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Jennifer Brier is professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and History at UIC. She is author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Response to the AIDS Crisis (UNC, 2009) and is the founder of History Moves, a public history project that seeks to make people historians of their own lives. She has curated numerous historical exhibitions, including Out in Chicago for the Chicago History Museum, and “I’m Still Surviving,” www.stillsurviving.net, a transmedia living women’s history of HIV/AIDS. In 2026, History Moves launched Listening for the Long Haul: A Long COVID Oral History Project in partnership with Brooklyn-based Long COVID Justice. Professor Brier has received funding from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities Without Walls Consortium, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment Humanities, and the National Science Foundation.

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