AQA’s Virtual Business Meeting – Nov 13, 2020 at 5pm EST

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]