The AQA is pleased to announce the 2018 call for applications for three Travel Grants ($350 each) to be used to help defray costs associated with attending the Annual AAA Meeting in San Jose, California.
About/Guidelines: The awards will be given to two current graduate students and one un/under-employed scholar (up to five years from receipt of PhD) whose work contributes to the advancement of queer anthropology. Relevant scholarship includes research on lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities and expressions; trans*/transgender/transsexuality; queer and trans* theories; and other sexual/gender formations and categories, and their intersections with race, class, disability, nationality, colonialism, and globalization. Preference will be given to applicants who are seekingemployment in the field of queer anthropology and/or participating in a panel or roundtable on queer anthropological research. Individuals must be members of the AAA and AQA to apply; preference will be given to applicants who show scholarly promise and personal commitment to AQA’s goals and activities. The award will be presented to the awardee at the AQA annual business meeting at the AAA annual meeting (although recipients will be notified in advance of the meetings). The selection committee consists of the two current co-chairs and the elected graduate student representative.
Application Process: Individuals who apply should submit a letter of interest with the following sections:
1) a) a concise one-page summary of the applicant’s scholarship
(dissertation project and/or other substantive research project) and
an explanation of its contribution to queer anthropology; b) an
indication of the applicant’s status (graduate student or, if recent
PhD, date of PhD); and c) a statement of the applicant’s planned role
at the AAA meetings (seeking employment, participating on a panel,
etc.).
2) Optional:Applicants may also submit a copy of their AAA panel or paper abstract (when applicable).
Deadline for application: August 30.
Send the above materials to aqa.cochairs@gmail.com