Madeline Adams is a historian of queer media and modern Germany. Her first book project, based on her dissertation titled Gray Activism, examines how queer East Germans used media practices to build and sustain social networks, political communities, and collective memory across the 1980s and into the decades following unification. Focusing on print media production, circulation, and preservation, the project shows how these materials functioned as infrastructures of queer life rather than merely records of it. Her current research focuses on sexuality and leftist politics in imperial Germany. Additionally, she is researching the media ecosystem and legacies of the Chicago-based program LesBiGay Radio (1994-2001). Adams has also worked in public history at the University of Chicago’s Special Collections Research Center and the Wende Museum in Los Angeles.