Lindsay Zafir

Assistant Professor

Lindsay Zafir is an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty with Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice at CUNY. Her work focuses on the history of social movements, the history of science, and the history of gender and sexuality. Her forthcoming book, State of Denial​: AIDS and the Dawn of the Disinformation Age (Bloomsbury), examines the history of HIV/AIDS denialism in the U.S., its contentious relationship with AIDS treatment activism, and its implications for understanding the rise of science denialism more broadly over the past forty years. Lindsay is the co-editor of Power Lines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement (The New Press), an anthology on organizing at the intersection of labor and climate justice. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the ACORN Oral History Project, a large-scale public oral history of staff, members, and leaders of the community organizing group ACORN.​ Lindsay previously served as the editor of The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice, an online publication and learning community for organizers across the progressive movement.

Areas of Expertise/Research

• Gender and Sexuality
• History and Philosophy of Science
• 20th Century Social Movements
• History of Science
• Women and Gender Studies