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Erin L. Durban presenting at the Queer and Trans Ecologies Symposium in spring 2023.

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]

  1. ^ "Faculty". College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
  2. ^ "Erin Durban | Critical Disability Studies Collective". cdsc.umn.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
  3. ^ "2024 Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
  4. ^ "UI Press | University of Illinois". www.press.uillinois.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
  5. ^ Chapman, Dasha A. (2024). "The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L. Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp". American Ethnologist. 51 (2): 296–297. doi:10.1111/amet.13255.
  6. ^ Durban, Erin L. (2022). "Anthropology and Ableism". American Anthropologist. 124 (1): 8–20. doi:10.1111/aman.13659.
  7. ^ Friedner, Michele; Wolf-Meyer, Matthew (2024). "Becoming malleable: How orienting to disability, communication, and the senses further commits anthropology to its moral project". American Ethnologist. 51 (1): 78–83. doi:10.1111/amet.13239. ISSN 0094-0496.
  8. ^ Günel, Gökçe; Watanabe, Chika (2024). "Patchwork ethnography". American Ethnologist. 51 (1): 131–139. doi:10.1111/amet.13243. ISSN 0094-0496.
  9. ^ Solomon, Harris (2022-10-24). "Wound Culture". Annual Review of Anthropology. 51 (1): 121–135. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-041520-101216. ISSN 0084-6570.
  10. ^ Carney, Megan A.; Chess, Debi; Rascon-Canales, Michelle (2022). ""There Would Be More Black Spaces": Care/giving Cartographies during COVID-19". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 36 (4): 442–462. doi:10.1111/maq.12732. ISSN 0745-5194. PMC 10091741. PMID 36250638.
  11. ^ Steers, Stuart. "Anti-War Craft". Westword. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  12. ^ Roys, Jerry (October 14, 2004). "Parade Protestors Arrested, Charged". Metropolitan. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  13. ^ "The Mario Savio Young Activist Award :: The Award". www.savio.org. Retrieved 2024-07-28.