Timothy Vale

Honors College Faculty

Timothy Vale is an visting instructional assistant professor in the Honors College, where he teaches both American history before 1877, and American history after 1877. He has been at the University of Houston since arriving as an undergraduate in 2008. He earned his bachelor’s in history in 2013 and completed his doctorate in 2022. His dissertation, “Lone-Star Strong: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Transformation of Texas’s LGBTQ Communities,” examines the impact of the epidemic on Texas’s LGBTQ communities by connecting them to the broader historical narrative on HIV/AIDS in more well-researched areas like New York and Los Angeles.

His current research and teaching interests include the history of American medicine, LGBTQ history, the history of science and technology, and public/digital history. Vale has been invited to several talks and lectures, including the University of North Texas, the University of Houston Center for Public History and its podcast Public Historians At Work. He has also given presentations at the Texas State Historical Association, the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the Southern Historical Association.