John Anderies is the Director of the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—one of the country’s largest LGBT archives. He is also the manager of the Philadelphia AIDS Oral History Project. He has also worked as an archivist at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania, and as Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. John has received and served as Principal Investigator on numerous grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Council on Library and Information Resources, Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park Services, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Pennsylvania Library Services and Technology Act, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. He is a board member of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), and is a founding organizer of the Pennsylvania LGBT History Network. John holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music (BM), Case Western Reserve University (MA), and Indiana University (MLS). Born and raised in Western Colorado and educated in the Midwest, John is proud to have called Philadelphia home for over 20 years.
