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 […]
AQA non-binding boycott of the AAA annual meeting in Tampa, Florida in 2024
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) has approved a non-binding boycott of the AAA annual meeting in Tampa, Florida in 2024. Along with other section leaders, AQA leadership met with the AAA Executive Board and the 2024 Executive Program Committee to express our concerns with the meeting being held in Tampa. We provided various suggestions, […]
AQA Awards 2023
We are pleased to announce the recipients of AQA’s annual awards and prizes for 2023. The honorees will be recognized at the AQA Business Meeting, on Friday, November 17, from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EST, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 713A. • The Ruth Benedict Prize is presented each year at the […]
AQA Elections 2023
The Association for Queer Anthropology invites self-nominations to fill four vacancies on the AQA Board beginning after the AAA Annual Meeting in 2023: Co-Chair Treasurer Nominations Committee (two positions) If you are interested in any of these positions or would like to learn more, please reach out to Nominations Committee Co-Chairs Casey James Miller (caseymiller@muhlenberg.edu) or Justin […]
AQA Kenneth W. Payne 2022 Award Announcement
The Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize is presented each year by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) of the American Anthropological Association to a graduate or undergraduate student in acknowledgment of outstanding anthropological work on 1) a lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans* topic, or 2) a critical interrogation of sexualities and genders more broadly defined. […]