Winners of the Kenneth W. Payne Prize
2009
Gregory Mitchell (Northwestern University)
“TurboConsumers™ in Paradise: Neoliberalism, Civil Rights, and Brazil’s Gay Sex Tourist Industry”Honorable Mentions:
Layoung Shin (SUNY Binghamton)
“Becoming ‘Authentic’ Iban within ‘Contagious’ Iban Culture: Young Women’s Same Sex Relationship in South Korea”Alexis Matza (University of Iowa)
“Maskulinity: The Strategic Use of Gender by Men”
2008
Jennifer L. Chase (UC Irvine)
“The Bird Carried Across: Traditional Families, Modern Sex, and Belonging in Germany”
2007:
Winners:
John Cho (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“The Wedding Banquet Revisited: ‘Contract Marriages’ Between Korean Gays and Lesbians”Chris Tan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“‘But They are Like You and Me’: Gay Civil Servants and Citizenship in a Cosmopolitanizing Singapore.Honorable Mention:
Ryan Thoreson (Oxford University)
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow Nation: Gay and Lesbian Rights in South Africa After a Decade of Democracy”
2006
Lucinda Ramberg (UC Berkeley)
“Medicalizing the Sacred Body: Subaltern Religiosity and Postcolonial Reform in South India”Honorable Mention:
Natasha Sandraya Wilson (University of Iowa)
“Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem”
2005
Tomi Castle (University of Iowa)
“Sexualizing Citizenship: Identity Politics and Notions of the ‘Ideal Citizen’ in a Brazilian Lesbian Rights Organization.”
2004
Marcia Ochoa (Stanford University)
“Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality, and Participation in ‘Loca-lization’”Anthony Petro (University of Chicago)
“The Methodist Church, Progressive Politics, and God’s Love Subjects: Gay and Lesbian Activism in a Chicago Methodist Church”
2003
Sam Bullington (University of Minnesota)
“The Devil’s Deal of Cape Town: Race, Sexulaity, and the Limits of the Nation in Contemporary South Africa”
2002
Alyssa Cymene Howe (University of New Mexico)
“Queers and Televisionaries: The Strategics of Sexuality in Neoliberal Nicaragua”
2001
2000
1999
Lauren Hasten (Columbia University)
“Gender Pretenders: A Drag King Ethnography”
1998
Constance Sullivan-Blum (SUNY Binghamton)
“‘Child Molesters, Murderers, and Republicans’: Accepting Gay and Lesbian People into the ‘Full Life Church’”
1997
1996
Niels Teunis (Northwestern University)
“Homosexuality in Dakar: Is the Bed the Heart of a Sexual Subculture?”
Printed in Journal of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Identities 1(2): 153–169.Peter A. Newman (University of Michigan)
1995
Patrick Larvie (University of Chicago)
1994
1993
Deborah A. Elliston (New York University)
“‘Ritualized Homosexuality’ in Anthropology: Critiquing a Concept, Re-Situating Practice”
1992
Martin F. Manalansan IV (University of Rochester)
“(R)effacing the ‘Gay’ Filipino: Resistance, Postcolonialsim, and Identity”Robert J. Morris
“Smoking the Image: The Systematic Censoring of Homotextuality from the Canon of ‘Hawaiiana’”
1991
Dwayne C. Turner (UCLA)
“You Can Only Lead If We Follow: Internal Struggle of an AIDS Activist Group”
1990
Carolyn White (University of Wisconsin)
“The Making of History: A Political Process”
1989
Raleigh Watts (University of Washington)
“Gender Variance among Male Polynesians”
1988
Scott Bravman (UC Santa Cruz)
“Anthropology as Politics: Language, Culture and Lesbian/Gay Theorizing”
