2015 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION Call for Submissions The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2015 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 […]
2014 Ruth Benedict Prize Call for Submissions
2014 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION Call for Submissions The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2014 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 […]
Ruth Benedict Prize: Deadline June 16, 2014
Announcing the 2014 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Competition! The Prize is awarded each year by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) for outstanding anthropological scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer topic. We give two prizes: one for a single-authored monograph and another for an edited volume. Submissions are due to committee members […]
CFP: AQA Writing Workshop for Graduate Students
The purpose of this workshop, to be held at the this years AAA meetings in Chicago, is to support graduate students working in the domain of queer anthropology, broadly defined. The first four (4) participants who submit an article manuscript (8,000–10,000 words in length, all-inclusive of body text, footnotes, and references) to aqa.cochairs@gmail.com by Wednesday, November 6, 2013 will […]
Call for Submissions for 2013 Ruth Benedict Prize
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2013 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 book written from an anthropological perspective about […]
Call for 2013 Payne Prize submissions!
The Kenneth W. Payne Prize for outstanding anthropological scholarship by a student on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic call for submissions deadline for submission: June 3, 2013 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 […]
The 2012 Ruth Benedict Prizes are announced!
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA, formerly the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, SOLGA) is very pleased to announce the 2012 winners of the Ruth Benedict Book Prize for outstanding scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic. This prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association’s national meeting to acknowledge excellence in […]
Call for Submissions: The 2012 Ruth Benedict Prize Competition
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2012 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Competition for outstanding anthropological scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic. The Ruth Benedict Book Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an […]
Stop Blaming Dharun Ravi
AQA member and former co-chair Mary Gray has a piece in the Huffington Post on Tyler Clementi and rethinking homophobia. Stop Blaming Dharun Ravi: Why We Need to Share Responsibility for the Loss of Tyler Clementi By Mary L. Gray, PhD Tyler Clementi’s death on Sept. 22, 2010 was one of several highly publicized youth […]