January 25, 2024 Jennifer Holland
Annual Clements Center Senior Fellow Lecture
Countryside of AIDS: Rural HIV Politics in Texas, 1981-2000”
Jennifer L. Holland, Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
6 PM lecture followed by Q&A
The Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU
In the 1980s, rural Texas seemed untouched by the AIDS epidemic; that disease was far away in New York and San Francisco, or at its closest, Houston. In fact, people lived and died of AIDS in small towns across these two states, but neither public health records nor their neighbors counted them. This talk explains the erasure of rural people with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and strange shape of AIDS education in small towns in the 1990s.
Jennifer L. Holland is the L.R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in histories of gender and sexuality, the American West, and twentieth-century US politics. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin and her MA from Utah State University. During her fellowship year, Jenn will be working on her second book, entitled Straightening Out: A History of Anti-Queer Politics in Rural America, which explores conservative mobilizations around queer rights and sexuality in the rural American West between the 1970s and the 2000s
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