Ana-Maurine Lara, winner of the 2020 Benedict Prize for Single-Authored Manuscript shares a special message with members of AQA. Congratulations, Ana-Maurine!
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AQA’s Virtual Business Meeting – Nov 13, 2020 at 5pm EST
Please join us virtually for AQA’s annual business meeting, this Friday, November 13, at 5pm EST. At the meeting, we will review the annual activities of our section, honor and acknowledge our annual prize winners, and consider new business for AQA. Although the virtual format makes socializing difficult, we hope to have some brief, structured […]
Evelyn Blackwood & Gayle Rubin: 2020/21 AQA Distinguished Achievement Award Winners
The Association of Queer Anthropology (AQA) is delighted to announce that Evelyn Blackwood and Gayle Rubin have each received AQA’s Distinguished Achievement Award for the years 2020 and 2021. The Distinguished Achievement Award honors outstanding contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer anthropology through scholarship, research, teaching, mentoring, service, public engagement, and/or activism. The […]
Announcing the 2020 AQA Fellowships
Deadline: November 6, 2020 About: Traditionally, the Association for Queer Anthropology offers travel grants to graduate students and non-tenure stream faculty to attend the annual AAA meeting. This year, we are offering these fellowships as general and unqualified support for scholars and students in the United States to continue practicing queer anthropology. AQA is offering […]
AQA ANNOUNCES THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2020 KENNETH W. PAYNE PRIZE
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. Twenty-one […]
2020 AQA Mentoring Workshop
The Association for Queer Anthropology is pleased to announce the details of our 2020 AQA Mentoring Workshop event! Building on our successful mentoring event that was held at the AAA meeting in 2018, this virtual event will pair junior scholars, including advanced graduate students (ABD) and early-career professionals (postdocs and pre-tenure track faculty, including visiting assistant professors […]
ANNOUNCING THE 2020 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE WINNERS
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is pleased to announce the 2020 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 […]
2020 Call for Submissions – Ruth Benedict Prize
2020 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION — Call for Submissions — The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2020 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 […]
2020 Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize – Call for Submissions
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 outstanding anthropological work on 1) a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans* topic, or 2) a critical interrogation of sexualities and genders more broadly defined. The Prize includes a cash award […]
Ellen Lewin: 2019 AQA Distinguished Achievement Award Winner
The Distinguished Achievement Award honors outstanding contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer anthropology through scholarship, research, teaching, mentoring, service, public engagement, and/or activism. The award seeks to honor our elders, recognize lifetime career achievements, and build community by connecting generations of AQA scholars. This year the Association for Queer Anthropology honors Ellen Lewin with […]