Name: David Marchionni
Year in program: 3
Primary supervisor: Dr. Naoko Wake
Major field: U.S. History
Minor fields: Science, Technology, & Medicine; Women & Identity
Specializations: Women’s & Gender Studies Graduate Specialization
Link to your personal page or profile: https://davidmarchionni.hcommons.org/
David Marchionni is a PhD student with a focus on 20th century U.S. history. His research revolves around the complex interplay between identity, disease, and America’s labyrinthine medical institutions.
His long-term mission is to trace personal and medical ethics questions throughout New York City’s ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. At its core, his work hopes to excavate and center the voices and experiences of Greater New York’s APIDA/A, queer, and youth populations, who are all too often overlooked or excluded from the wider historical narrative.
In the short-term, he is in the process of exploring the role played by NYC’s few gay Asian nightclubs as sites of medical information sharing, inter-community organizing, and resistance amid the city’s broader AIDS activist movement.