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 […]
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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 […]
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.
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 ANNOUNCES THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2021 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. Seven […]
ANNOUNCING THE 2021 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE WINNERS
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is pleased to announce the 2021 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 […]
2021 Call for Submissions – Ruth Benedict Prize
2021 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION — Call for Submissions — The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2021 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 […]
Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship Program, Due Monday 3/15/21
https://jobs.up.hcommons.org/job/university-of-washington-press-mit-press-ohio-state-university-press-northwestern-university-press-university-of-chicago-press-cornell-university-press-2-mellon-university-press-diversity-fellows/ The University Press Diversity Fellowship Program seeks to increase diversity in scholarly publishing by providing fourteen-month fellowships in the acquisitions departments of six university presses—the University of Washington Press, the University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, MIT Press, Northwestern University Press, and Ohio State University Press—with the support of the Association of University Presses and the Andrew W. […]
2021 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 […]