Background
Dan Royles is a historian of the modern United States, African American life and culture, and LGBTQ+ identity and community. His first book, To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS, was published in 2020 by University of North Carolina Press and was a finalist for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. He also runs the African American AIDS History Project, a digital archive of responses to HIV/AIDS in Black America, and is a co-lead for the Miami AIDS Memorials Project, a community-engaged effort to commemorate the impact of HIV/AIDS on South Florida's diverse communities.
His current projects include a historic context study on violence against people of African descent in the United States and its territories since 1500, and a biography of Claude Brown, author of the 1965 novel Manchild in the Promised Land.
Education
- PhD, Temple University
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
- Modern America
- African American history
- LGBTQ+ history
- Social movements
- Oral history
- Public history
- History and memory
