Stathis G. Yeros

Stathis G. Yeros is a historian of the built environment and a designer. His research addresses how space affects and is affected by struggles for social justice. His first book, Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice (University of California Press, 2024), examines queer and transgender identities within the built environment, and questions some of the essentialisms of earlier scholarship. Bringing insights from anthropology and queer theory in dialogue with architecture and spatial justice, he analyzes how claims to physical space are forms of insurgent citizenship.

Yeros’s current projects investigate conceptualizations of community and constructions of citizenship in design practice, and the history of queer landscapes in the U.S. Deep South. Yeros is a 2024-2025 Mellon Fellow in the Democracy and Landscape Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and incoming Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of New Mexico. He holds a PhD in architecture and an M.Arch from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Berkeley and the University of Florida.