PUBLICATIONS
Book
2024
Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice. Oakland: University of California Press.
Journal Articles & Chapters in Edited Volumes
In press
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.
E. Peterson and S. G. Yeros [authors in alphabetical order]. “Making Home at Tlatelolco: Forging Livelihoods Amid Modernism’s Rubble.” In Crysler, C. G. and M. Moreno- Carranco (Eds). Mexico City: Materiality, Performance, Power.
Forthcoming
“Death and Life at the Ambassador Hotel.” In: Mary Wilson and Jess Shollenberger (Eds). Domesticity and Queer Theory. Duke University Press.
2023
“AIDS and the City: Bathhouses, Emplaced Empathy, and the Desexualization of San Francisco.” Urban History 50 (3): 547-564. https://doi.org/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
2021
Yeros, S. G. “Queering Space Tactics: Two Case Studies in Oakland, California.” In: Kalms, N., G. Bawden, J. Berry and T. Moore (Eds). Contentious Cities. London: Routledge.
Yeros, S. G. and C. Laborde. “Queer Ecological Imaginations.” Ground Up 10.
2017
Yeros, S. G. “Notes on Queering the Military Apparatus.” In: Crichton. E. G. (Ed). OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer. San Francisco: GLBT Historical Society.
Shanken, A., V. Rosas-Krause, S. G. Yeros & A. Craghead. “Remember This! A Memory Manifesto for Architects.” Room One Thousand 5.
Book Review
2023
“What is Queer About Queer Architecture?” Architectural Theory Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2023.2234710
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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
Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative Un-Targeted Acquisition Grant for the development of a teaching module on medieval architectural history, Mellon Foundation (with Tino Mager, Delft University)
Townsend Center for the Humanities Grant, UC Berkeley (with Chandra Laborde).
2019
Joan E. Draper Architectural History Research Endowment Award, Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley
2018
Best Student Paper, European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) biannual conference
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Connect Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2016
Diversity Platforms committee grant, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley (with Eric Peterson)
2013
The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley
2011
The Fanourakis Foundation Fellowship, Athens, Greece
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024
“Living in the desert in times of collapse.” European Architectural History Network International Conference, Athens, Greece. Accepted.
2024
“Transing architecture and/as social justice.” Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2023
Session Chair: “Queering Spatial Histories.” Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Montréal, Canada.
“Queering Design Pedagogies.” Urban History Association tenth biennial conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Accepted.
“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
SERVICE, EXTERNAL CONSULTING & INVITED TALKS
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.
2014
“Cat on a Hot Green Roof”
Architecture Lecture Series, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 26.
CONFERENCES AND TALKS ORGANIZED
2023
Public Forum: (Re)Imagining Trans Anti-Carceral Resistance in the Tenderloin | Berkeley, California (with The Turk and Taylor Initiative Working Group). Invited participants: Pau Crego, Jemma DeCristo, Shayne Watson, Woods Ervin, Gabby Burgos, Yahdaeh Mendoza
2020
Queer Ecological Imaginations | UC Berkeley (with Chandra Laborde). Invited speakers: Matthew Gandy, Nicole Seymour, Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram
2019-2020
The Architecture Roundtable | UC Berkeley (with Tania Osorio-Harp and Jaime Gomez). Invited speakers: Carla Yanni, Noam Shoked, Avigail Sachs
2017
Queer/Urban | UC Berkeley (with Eric Peterson). Invited speakers: Olivier Vallerand, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Andrew Herscher, Beryl Satter, Kian Goh, Natalie Oswin, Sara Jordenö
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Transition Times
With Chandra Laborde. Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco, California
https://www.turkxtaylor.com/
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
https://postcardsfromtheroof.com/