Jonathan Kuo

Writer in Residence

Jonathan Kuo is an MSc student at the University of Manchester studying the history of science, technology, and medicine. His academic work focuses on the history of twentieth-century health activism across the political spectrum, with particular interest in the fluid boundaries of identity in relation to race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and belief in the Anglosphere and its global connections; he is also interested in writing creative nonfiction and personal essays. His current MSc project examines AIDS activism, race, and diasporic networks in the UK. After Manchester, he will begin his MD/PhD in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.