Stathis Yeros

Stathis G. Yeros is a historian of the built environment, designer, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. His work reveals how struggles for social justice materialize in the spaces we inhabit and how those spaces, in turn, enable resistance and collective care. He is the author of Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice (University of California Press, 2024).

His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Urban History, Places, and several edited volumes. He is currently working on two projects: The first is a study of queer and trans spaces in the U.S. Deep South (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and parts of Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, and Florida), tentatively titled Building the Queer South. The second project extends the thread of queer citizenship, a critical analytical lens for studying space in Queering Urbanism. This project explores local attachments to physical spaces and the politics of design through contemporary citizenship transnationally.

Yeros holds a Ph.D. in Architecture (History, Theory, and Society) and an Master of Architecture for the University of California, Berkeley, and was a 2024-25 Mellon Fellow in Democracy and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University. His work has been supported, among others, by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Mills Institute at Northeastern University, The American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the Society of Architectural Historians. Yeros is a board member of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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