PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Books
2024
Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice. Oakland: University of California Press.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Under Review
“Searching for Community in a City Divided: Queer Territorialization in Atlanta.” Planning Perspectives.
2026
“Challenging Binaries in Byzantine Monastic Architecture.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 85 (2): 173–189. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2026.85.2.173
2023
“AIDS and the City: Bathhouses, Emplaced Empathy, and the Desexualization of San Francisco.” Urban History 50 (3): 547-564. doi:10.1017/S0963926822000141
2022
Yeros, S. G. & L. Chiesi. “Trans Territorialization: Building Empowerment beyond Identity Politics,” Social Sciences 11 (10): 429. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11100429
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Forthcoming
“Domesticity, Death, and Desire in AIDS Emergency Housing.” In: Mary Wilson and Jess Shollenberger (Eds). Domesticity and Queer Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Forthcoming
“A Model for AIDS Emergency Housing.” In Tara Bissett and Amari Peliowski (Eds.). Toward an Architectural Genealogy of Care: A Reader. Barcelona: ARQ Ediciones. Bilingual edition.
2025
E. Peterson and Yeros, S. G. [authors in alphabetical order]. “Un lugar en Tlatelolco: Habitar entre los Escombros del Modernismo / Making Home in Tlatelolco: Forging Livelihoods Amid Modernism’s Rubble.” In Crysler, C. G. and M. Moreno- Carranco (Eds). Ciudad de México: Siete, Categorías, Materiales / Mexico City: Materiality, Performance, Power. Mexico City: UAM Press.
2024
Crysler, C. G., Y. Kramski, C. Laborde, S. G. Yeros [authors in alphabetical order]. “Spatializing Queer Ecologies.” In: Haghighi. F. and N. Bobic (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II. London: Routledge.
2020
“Queering Space Tactics: Two Case Studies in Oakland, California.” In: Kalms, N., G. Bawden, J. Berry and T. Moore (Eds). Contentious Cities. London: Routledge.
Book Reviews
2025
“The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco.” Western Historical Quarterly 56 (2):173. https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whaf007
2023
“What is Queer About Queer Architecture?” Architectural Theory Review 27(3): 495–498. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2023.2234710
Other Writing
2025
“Mississippi Violet.” Platform. September 22.
“Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel.” Places. February 1.
2024
“Queerly Southern.” Society of Architectural Historiansonline. December 1.
“Pleasure, Pride, and Protest along the Mississippi.” Society of Architectural Historians online. October 9.
“Difference and Dissent in the American Landscape: Queering Northern Louisiana.” Society of Architectural Historians online. September 25.
2024
C. Laborde and S. G. Yeros. Transition Times: Re-Membering Anticarceral Resistance in the Tenderloin. San Francisco: TurkxTaylor Initiative. Exhibition catalogue.
2021
Yeros, S. G. and C. Laborde. “Queer Ecological Imaginations.” Ground Up 10.
2017
“Notes on Queering the Military Apparatus.” In: Crichton. E. G. (Ed). OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer. San Francisco: GLBT Historical Society.
Craghead, A. B., S. Gerostathopoulos, V. Rozas-Krause, A. M. Shanken, D. Valadares, S. Vales, M. Warren. “Remember This! A Memory Manifesto for Architects.” Room One Thousand 5.
INVITED TALKS
2026
Keynote Presentation, “Community Spatialities, Activism and Politics of Memory: Historicizing and Spatializing HIV/AIDS and the Struggle of Marginalized Groups,” Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. August 14.
Book Talk, Queering Urbanism, GLBT Historical Society Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA. May 7.
2025
Invited lecture, Queer Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands, online.
2022
Queer Urbanism in the San Francisco Bay (lecture series), Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, online, March 18.
2021
AIDS and the city: bathhouses, AIDS activism, and the ‘de-sexualization’ of San Francisco (colloquium), Buell Center, Columbia University, online, April 23.
2016
Notes on Queer Citizenship, Queer Visual Culture at the GLBT History Museum (symposium), GLBT Museum, San Francisco, CA, November 9.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2027
Contesting Citizenship: Architecture Between Democracy and Authoritarianism, Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Chicago, USA. With Anna Goodman. Scheduled.
2023
Queering Spatial Histories, Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Montréal, Canada, April 12–16.
Papers
2026
Alternative landscapes of the spirit: queer domesticity and Kinship in the Deep South, SAH Annual International Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, April 16-18.
2024
Living in the desert in times of collapse, European Architectural History Network International Conference, Athens, Greece, June 19-23.
2023
“Queering Design Pedagogies.” Urban History Association tenth biennial conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“Response to Susan Herrington’s ‘On the Very Idea of Queering Landscape’,” American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California.
2022
“Against advocacy: queer and trans spaces resisting assimilation,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Eighteenth Biennial Conference, New York, New York.
“Trans-ecological imaginations in San Francisco's Tenderloin,” ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Resilient Futures, online, with Chandra Laborde.
2021
Buell Dissertation Colloquium Presentation: “AIDS and the City: Bathhouses, AIDS activism, and the ‘de-sexualization’ of San Francisco,” Columbia University, New York.
2020
“Trans-Oakland: Urban Intersectional Alliances in Housing Activism,” Dispossession in Motion, UC Berkeley (cancelled)
2019
“A genealogy of contemporary queer spaces at the intersection of sexuality and gender with race and aging in San Francisco and Oakland.” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Eighteenth Biennial Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
2018
“The emergence of queer urbanism in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Urban History Association ninth biennial conference, Columbia, South Carolina.
“From queer spaces to sexual publics: medicalization, surveillance, and retreat in the Bay Area’s response to HIV/AIDS.” European Association of Urban Historians fourteenth international conference, Rome, Italy.
“Expanding the limits of queer urban politics.” Architecture Media Politics Society conference, London, United Kingdom.
“The new ground: a visual manifesto of above-ground urbanism,” The Berkeley/Stanford Art History Symposium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2016
“Situating the urban in sexual citizenship: national imaginaries and queer counter narratives,” paper, seventeenth International Planning History Society conference, Delft, the Netherlands
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2025-2026
Research Justice at the Intersections Fellowship, Mills Institute at Northeastern, Oakland, CA.
2024
Mellon Fellowship in Democracy and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC.
H Allen Brook Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians
2023
Individual Grant, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
2022
Research grant, University of Florence, Italy
2020
Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellow, UC Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Townsend Center for the Humanities Grant, UC Berkeley (with Chandra Laborde).
2018
Best Student Paper, European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) biannual conference
Berkeley Connect Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2013
The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley
SERVICE, EXTERNAL CONSULTING & INVITED TALKS
2026
Board member, CLAGS, The Center for LGBTQ Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
2023-2024
Co-editor, Arris – The Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
2023
Project consultant, IDEO, San Francisco
2022
“Queer Urbanism in the San Francisco Bay,” Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative Lecture Series, remote presentation, March 18.
2016
“Notes on Queer Citizenship,” Queer Visual Culture at the GLBT History Museum (symposium) San Francisco Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, November 9.
“Queer Possession and Dispossession of the City,” Immanent Urbanism(s) (event series) San Francisco, CA, March 17.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Transition Times
With Chandra Laborde. Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco, California
2022
Queer Sites
With Chandra Laborde. College of Environmental Design Library, Bauer-Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley https://queersites.org/
2014
Postcards from the Roof
Spring 2014 Architecture Exhibitions, Bauer-Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley