John D'Emilio

John D'Emilio is a professor emeritus of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998 and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1997 and also served as Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1995 to 1997. He has previously served two terms as President of the Board for Chicago's Gerber / Hart LGBTQ+ Library and Archives and is currently on the board of trustees for The American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City, New York.