Scholar Series
The LGBTQIA+ Scholars Series features BU faculty and their current LGBTQIA+ scholarship and research.
25-26 LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series

Fall 2025
- Meeting This Moment: State and Federal Legal Landscape After Skrmetti and Mahmoud, Featuring: Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar; Linda C. McLain, Robert Kent Professor of Law; Carl G. Streed, Associate Professor of Medicine/GIM; Research Director, GenderCare Center at BMC; Michael Ulrich, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and School of Law; and Darien Williams, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work – Friday, September 19, 11:30 am – 1 pm, Virtual, Register here
- Health, Policy, and Politics: Advances, Challenges, and Potential Opportunities, Featuring Kevin Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, School of Public Health – Friday, October 10, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
- Explaining Differences in Anti-LGBTQ+ Backlash in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Featuring: Timothy Longman, Professor of International Relations and Political Science and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Pardee School of Global Studies; and Taylor Boas, Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies and Department Chair of Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences – Friday, November 14, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
- The Past and Future of LGBTQ+ Prejudice, Featuring Victor Kumar, Associate Professor, Philosophy; Director, Graduate Placement; and Director, Center for Philosophy & History of Science, College of Arts & Sciences, Friday, December 12, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
Spring 2026 – To Be Announced
Previous LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series
Spring 2025
- Remembering Confucian Homoeroticism, Featuring Peng Yin, Assistant Professor of Ethics, School of Theology – Friday, February 7, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
- “My Gender is Lesbian”: Lesbian Feminism for the TikTok Generation, Featuring Cati Connell, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Friday, March 21, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
- “The way that we survive is to be connected”: Social media and eating disorders risk among LGBTQ+ young adults, Featuring Allegra Gordon, Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health – Friday, April 4, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
Fall 2024
- Coming Out and Pushing Forward: Learning From LGBTQIA+ Latines, Featuring Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work – Friday, October 11, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
- Apprehending Queer Forced Migrants: More than ‘Adding Queer and Stir’, Featuring Sandra McEvoy, Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies – Friday, October 25, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
- LGBTQ+ Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Health Impacts and a Call to Action, Featuring Avik Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine – Friday, November 1, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
- Contributions from the LGBTQ+ communities to the end of the HIV epidemic, FeaturingCarlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz, Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health – Friday, December 6, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
Spring 2023
Queer Representation & Visibility
- ‘Dyke Bars Never Last’: Gentrification, Critical Nostalgia and the Commemoration of Lost Dyke Bars, featuring Japonica Brown-Saracino, Professor and Chair of Sociology
- Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS, featuring Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law and R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, School of Law
- “If I was straight and white it would be different: they would believe me”: The experiences of gay Latino and/or Black male sexual assault survivors when disclosing being sexually assaulted, featuring Daniel Jacobson López, Assistant Professor, BU School of Social Work and Faculty Affiliate, Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health
Fall 2022
Queer Representation & Visibility
- Borderlanding Academic Researchers: A Range of Whisper Networks, featuring Laura M. Jiménez, Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education
- Visibly Hidden: Exploring Queer Masculinities in 1950s Popular Music, featuring Vincent L. Stephens, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, College of Arts & Sciences and Lecturer in the School of Music
- Transmasculinity on Television, featuring Patrice Oppliger, Assistant Professor of Communication
- Assessing and Addressing the Well-Being of LGBTQ Populations, featuring Carl Streed Jr., Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and the Research Lead for the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center
Spring 2022
Identity & Activism
- Queer Art, the Christian Right, and the Aesthetics of Literalism featuring Anthony Petro, Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Health Humanities
- “Conscience, not Bigotry” and Other Framings in Conflicts over LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Liberty featuring Linda C. McClain, Robert Kent Professor of Law
- The Caged Bird Sings: Welcoming Identities through Music-making featuring André De Quadros, Professor of Music, Music Education and affiliate faculty in African American Studies, African Studies Center, American & New England Studies Program, Center for Antiracist Research, Center for the Study of Asia, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Initiative on Cities, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Latin American Studies, Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, Prison Education Program, and The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Fall 2021
Queering Pedagogy & Education