Emily K. Hobson (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
AIDS and Abolition: A History of Care Work against the Carceral State
NEH Fellowship, 2024–25
Associate Professor of History and of Gender, Race, and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno
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Emily K. Hobson is an associate professor of history and gender, race, and identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. A historian of radical social movements and queer politics in the post-1960s United States, she is the author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (2016) and coeditor, with Dan Berger, of Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001 (2020). Articles and chapters have appeared in the Radical History Review, QED, Sinister Wisdom, The Abolitionist, and Truthout, among other venues. Her current research examines the history of the HIV/AIDS prison movement, whose activists brought together feminist, queer, and abolitionist opposition to the convergence of state neglect and state violence that defined the Reagan through Clinton eras. Hobson is a past chair of the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a 2023–2025 member of the National Council of the American Studies Association.
Selected Publications
- Hobson, Emily K. “The AIDS Quilt in Prison: Care Work in and against the Carceral State.” Radical History Review 148 (January 2024): 9–29.
- Hobson, Emily K. “Fighting HIV/AIDS in Prison.” Sinister Wisdom 126 (Fall 2022): 156–63.
- Berger, Dan and Emily K. Hobson, eds. Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020.
- Hobson, Emily K. “Thinking Transnationally, Thinking Queer.” In The Routledge History of Queer America, edited by Don Romesburg, 200–09. New York: Routledge, 2018.
- Hobson, Emily K. Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016.