Madeline Adams is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago researching queer German history. In her dissertation, "Materiality and Memory in East German LGBT Communities, 1982 to 2003," she examines queer networks of communication, mutual aid, and archiving in and after the GDR. Her research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German-American Fulbright Commission. Between 2023 and 2025, she was a visiting fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Research in Potsdam.