STEVEN W. THRASHER, PHD holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ+ research. He is also a faculty member of Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing.
His writing has been widely published by Scientific American, The New York Times, Nation, The Atlantic, The Journal of American History, BuzzFeed News, Esquire and New York magazine. In 2019, Out magazine named him one of the 100 most influential and impactful people of the year and in 2020, the Ford Foundation awarded him a grant for Creativity and Free Expression.
An alumnus of media jobs with Saturday Night Live, the HBO film the Laramie Project and the NPR StoryCorps project, Dr. Thrasher has been a staff writer for the Village Voice and a columnist for the Guardian. He holds a PhD in American Studies and lives in Chicago, New York and in motels at the end of runways. The Viral Underclass is his first book. Twitter: @thrasherxy.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Yale Global Health Justice Partnership
Yale School of Public Health
Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
American Studies Program
Office of Global Health, YSM Department of Internal Medicine
The Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
The Yale Office of Global Health Education
Yale Office of LGBTQ Resources
Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Yale Law School
Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
Department of Sociology
African American Studies