We are pleased to announce the results from 2025’s Payne Prize competition. Congratulations to Berkant Caglar on his winning paper: The Woman Who Fell from the Window: Suicide, Moralization of Femicide and Trans Precarity – Berkant Calgary (he/him); Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Additionally, an honorable mention goes to the […]
2025 AQA Ruth Benedict Book Prize Announcement
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the Ruth Benedict Book Prize for outstanding scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic. The prize is presented each year to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective that engages theoretical perspectives relevant to LGBTQ […]
2024 AQA RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE WINNER
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the Ruth Benedict Book Prize for outstanding scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic. The prize is presented each year to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective that engages theoretical perspectives relevant to LGBTQ […]
2025 AQA RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION
Call for Submissions The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2025 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Competition for outstanding anthropological scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer topic. The Ruth Benedict Book Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly […]
Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) has approved a non-binding boycott of the AAA annual meeting in Tampa, Florida in 2024. The AQA Business Meeting will be held on Friday, November 22 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST on Zoom at the following link: https://beloit.zoom.us/j/3330608785. Along with other section leaders, AQA leadership met […]
AQA-MES Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop
AQA-MES Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop Call for Papers Deadline to Submit—Friday, November 22 Many members of the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) and Middle East Section (MES) will not be attending the American Anthropological Association Meetings in Tampa, FL this year. However, in order to continue the important mentoring work that graduate students want […]
Kenneth W. Payne Prize 2024
We are pleased to announce the results from this year’s Payne Prize competition. Congratulations to Dennis Ohm on his winning paper: Architectures of Queer Memory. Alvin Baltrop’s Photographic Archive of the Piers – Dennis Ohm (he/him); Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, McGill University Additionally, an honorable mention goes to the following paper: Surface Breathing: Interstitial […]
AAA Sections Statement on Gaza, Palestine
The Association for Queer Anthropology, as one of the undersigned sections of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the largest professional association of anthropologists in the world, condemn Israel’s ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinian people, most visible in its unprecedented bombardment of Gaza since October 7, 2023.
2024 AQA RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION
Call for Submissions The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2024 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Competition for outstanding anthropological scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer topic. The Ruth Benedict Book Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly […]
Kenneth W. Payne Prize – Call for Submissions
The Kenneth W. Payne Prize for outstanding anthropological scholarship by a student on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans* topic Call for submissions Deadline for submission: June 1, 2024 The Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize is presented each year by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) to a graduate or undergraduate student in acknowledgment of […]