Stathis G. Yeros Joins the School of Architecture and Planning
June 30, 2025
The School of Architecture and Planning welcomes Stathis G. Yeros to the Department of Architecture. He is a historian of the built environment and designer whose research explores how struggles for social justice shape, and are shaped by, the spaces we inhabit. His first book, Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice (University of California Press, 2024), brings together insights from anthropology and queer theory in dialogue with architecture and spatial justice to examine how LGBTQ+ communities transform the built environment—and, in doing so, lay claim to forms of insurgent citizenship.
Stephen Vider, author of The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II, reflects on Stathis’s book, stating: “This lively and illuminating book provides a new and needed history of San Francisco since the 1960s, tracing how LGBTQ people remade public and private spaces while contesting the bounds of normative citizenship. Moving from SROs to renovated Victorians, lesbian bars to community land grants, Yeros revives vital questions about how queer and trans communities remake the cities they call home.”
“Stathis is an accomplished scholar, a skilled design instructor, and an architectural historian. We are fortunate to add him to our already excellent faculty. He brings an area of expertise that broadens and augments the way we are educating future architects,” says chair of Architecture Chris Cornelius. Stathis’s current projects investigate the politics of community and citizenship as they emerge in both design practices and everyday life, with a particular focus on queer landscapes in the U.S. Deep South. This work is supported by a Mellon Fellowship in the Democracy and Landscape Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks—Trustees for Harvard University (2024-25) and the Research Justice at the Intersections Program at Mills Institute. His research has appeared in leading journals and edited volumes and has been supported by the Graham Foundation and the Society of Architectural Historians’ H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship.
Stathis holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and an M.Arch from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has previously taught at UC Berkeley and the University of Florida. You can learn more about him through his personal website: www.stathisyeros.com.
