About Erin L. Durban

Erin L. Durban is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Critical Disability Studies at the University of Minnesota. They earned a PhD in Feminist Studies from University of Arizona and is an active affiliate of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, currently serving as Director of Graduate Studies. They are also affiliate faculty for American Studies and the Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RIDGS). Durban's first book, The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti, won the National Women's Studies Association-University of Illinois Press First Book prize and the Lambda Literary Prize in LGBT Studies. They are currently writing a second book, "Enabling Ethnography: Crafting Anti-Ableist Fieldwork Methods" (under contract with University of Minnesota Press).