A Special Issue of *Transgender Studies Quarterly*, Volume 6, Issue 2, (Spring 2019) *Special Issue Editors: *Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, Denilson Lopes, Cole Rizki, and Juana María Rodríguez *Submissions due: February 1, 2018* “Trans Studies en las Américas” calls for papers that center Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx trans theoretical, ethnographic, political, and artistic production. Throughout […]
Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at MCLA
The Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Department welcomes applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in sociocultural anthropology to begin on September 1, 2018. Our interdisciplinary department offers a sociology major and hosts a variety of minors, including anthropology; child and family studies; criminal justice; health, aging, and society; and social work. We have eight full-time […]
Tenure-track position in LGBTQ Studies/cinema and WGST co-hire
The Women’s and Gender Studies program (WGST) and Cinema and Media Studies department (CAMS) at Carleton College invites applications for a joint tenure-track position in LGBTQ Studies, starting September 1, 2018. The teaching load is five courses over three ten-week terms—three courses in WGST and two courses in CAMS. We are particularly interested in applicants […]
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize 2017
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send stand-alone papers centering on the analysis of political and/or legal institutions and processes. Topics may include citizenship; colonialism and post-colonial public spheres; cosmopolitanism; cultural politics; disability; environment; globalization; governance; […]
ONE YEAR VISITING POSITION IN WGSS at The College of Wooster
REOPENED: ONE YEAR VISITING POSITION – WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies to begin in August 2017. The successful candidate will teach Introductory Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, feminist methodologies, and an upper-level WGSS courses […]
2017 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE JUNE 15, 2017)
Call for Submissions The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2017 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 […]
Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) V Conference – Sept 15-17 2017
CLASP V – Call for Papers Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) V Conference September 15-17, 2017 Boulder, CO CLASP V is the fifth multidisciplinary conference run by graduate students that promotes the broad connections between culture, language, and society grounded in empirical research. We hope to once again bring together an array of national […]
AAA 2017: Call for Presenters for Roundtable on “Empathy Matters”
AA 2017 Call for Five (5) Presenters on Proposed Roundtable: Empathy Matters: Teaching Interventions in a Time of Intensive Inequality and Division If interested, please send us your name, email address, institutional affiliation, issue or subject matter, name of course and degree program or educational context, and brief description of your approach to social empathy. […]
CFP / AAA 2017: “Digital Deception and the Queer Life of Data”
CFP / AAA 2017: “Digital Deception and the Queer Life of Data” Organized by Mitali Thakor (Northwestern), Shaka McGlotten (SUNY Purchase), and Paul Michael Atienza (UIUC) Keywords: critical data studies, biometrics, intimacy, secrecy, queer studies This panel explores questions of secrecy, exposure, and deception through intimate narratives of data. Drawing on queer media studies, science […]
AAA 2017 CFP – From Berlin to the Bay and In-Between: Queer Life In and Outside of the Gayborhood
From Berlin to the Bay and In-Between: Queer Life In and Outside of the Gayborhood Anthropologists and geographers investigating social organization among queer and LGBT people have analyzed how constructions of place and identity mutually constitute one another (Blackwood 2008; Boellstorff 2003; Gieseking 2013). The analytical and methodological approaches developed by these scholars present conceptual […]