Ian Lekus, Ph.D.

Ian Lekus is an LGBT Thematic Specialist for Amnesty International USA. A recovering academic, he has taught US and world history, human rights, sexuality and gender studies, HIV/AIDS, and other topics at Harvard, Duke, Cornell, Tufts, and the Universities of Georgia and Maryland. He is currently completing his first book, Queer and Present Dangers: Sexuality, Masculinity, and the Sixties, under advance contract with the University of North Carolina Press. Both his advocacy and his scholarship address the intersections between grassroots social movements, political and cultural change, and sexuality and gender. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights. He received his BA from Cornell University and his MA and PhD from Duke University.