holds the inaugural Daniel C. Renberg Chair at Northwestern University and is a faculty member of the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. A former staff writer for the Village Voice and the Guardian, his writing has been published by the New York Times, Atlantic, Esquire, the Journal of American History, and in many scientific journals. His debut book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll when Inequality and Disease Collide was published in 2022 to wide acclaim, and was a longlist finalist for the Pen/America John Kenneth Gailbraith Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Literature and, won the POZ Award for Best Depiction of HIV/AIDS in Literature. He holds a BFA in film/television production and a PhD in American Studies from New York University.