Jason Baumann
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Jason Baumann is the Susan and Douglas Dillon Director for Collection Development and Global Studies at the New York Public Library. He also coordinates the NYPL’s LGBTQ+ Initiative, for which he has curated a number of exhibitions, including Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism and Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50. He is the editor of Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era (W.W. Norton) and The Stonewall Reader (Penguin Classics). Since 2006, he has been a member of the faculty at Pratt Institute’s School of Information.
Education
PhD, English, CUNY Graduate Center
MFA, Creative Writing, City College, CUNY
MLS, Queens College, CUNY