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The Sexual Politics of Empire Awarded Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies

June 11, 2024

My first book, The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti, was awarded a Lammy for best book in LGBTQ Studies at the 2024 Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony.  

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Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Book Event

April 13, 2023

Professor Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (UCSB Black Studies) came to University of Minnesota for an event to celebrate the publication of The Sexual Politics of Empire. Video coming soon.  

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Imagine Otherwise Podcast Episode

January 25, 2023

Podcast episode about my new book, The Sexual Politics of Empire, as well as doing research as a disabled scholar. 

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Star Tribune Article about University Grove Project

September 20, 2022

This article from the Star Tribune magazine features my home and neighborhood. It includes information about the "Professorville" research project that I am working on with my partner and collaborator Professor Miranda Joseph. 

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Nèg Mawon Podcast Episode

December 23, 2022

Podcast episode about my book that will be published next month by University of Illinois Press. 

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UMN Accessibility in Research Panel

April 7, 2022

Online panel about accessibility in research convened by the UMN Office of Research and Graduate Programs. I discussed the experimental ethnographic research project I designed about the University Grove neighborhood for collective access during the pandemic. 

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Patchwork Ethnography Webinar Presentation on Disability Justice

June 24-25, 2021

Presentation about creating disability accessibility in ethnographic research through collective data collection and analysis. The full webinar is available online

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Anthropology News Article

April 20, 2020

Brief opinion article about state responses to Covid-19 in the early months of the pandemic. You can read it here.

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Nou Mache Ansanm: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Haiti

October 31, 2015

Overview video of the Duke University symposium convened by my colleagues Dasha A. Chapman and Mario LaMothe that resulted in the publication of the Women & Performance special issue about queer performance in Haiti. 

© 2023 by Erin L. Durban

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