Erin L. Durban is a professor of anthropology[1] and critical disability studies[2] at the University of Minnesota. They are the author of The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti, winner of the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies[3] and the National Women's Studies/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize.[4] Durban's scholarship contextualizes LGBT rights in Haiti and created a foundation for the subfield of "queer Haitian studies."[5] In anthropology, Durban's work, especially their article "Anthropology and Ableism," addresses issues of ableism and disability accessibility in ethnographic research methods.[6][7][8][9][10] In addition to their scholarship, Durban has been an activist since the early 2000s[11][12] and was recognized with the Mario Savio Young Activist Award "presented each year to a young person (or persons) with a deep commitment to human rights and social justice and a proven ability to transform this commitment into effective action."[13]
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