Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

Kenneth W. Payne Prize Winners


The Kenneth W. Payne Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association's annual meetings in acknowledgment of outstanding work on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic in anthropology.

Click to read the current call for submisions.


2006

Lucinda Ramberg

"Medicalizing the Sacred Body: Subaltern Religiosity and Postcolonial Reform in South India"

Honorable Mention:

Natasha Sandraya Wilson

"Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem"

2005

Tomi Castle (U Iowa)

"Sexualizing Citizenship: Identity Politics and Notions of the 'Ideal Citizen' in a Brazilian Lesbian Rights Organization."

2004
(two awards)

Marcia Ochoa

“Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality, and Participation in ‘Loca-lization’”

Anthony Petro

“The Methodist Church, Progressive Politics, and God’s Love Subjects: Gay and Lesbian Activism in a Chicago Methodist Church”

2003

Sam Bullington • U of Minnesota

“The Devil's Deal of Cape Town: Race, Sexulaity, and the Limits of the Nation in Contemporary South Africa”

2002

Alyssa Cymene Howe

2001

No prize awarded

2000

1999

Lauren Hasten •

1998

Constance Sullivan-Blum • Binghamton University, SUNY

“‘Child Molesters, Murderers, and Republicans’: Accepting Gay and Lesbian People into the ‘Full Life Church’

1997

1996

Niels Teunis • Northwestern U

Peter A. Newman

“Homosexuality in Dakar: Is the Bed the Heart of a Sexual Subculture?” Printed in Journal of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Identities 1(2): 153–169.

1995

Patrick Larvie

1994

1993

Deborah A. Elliston • NYU

“‘Ritualized Homosexuality’ in Anthropology: Critiquing a Concept, Re-Situating Practice”

1992
(two awards)

Martin F. Manalansan IV • U of Rochester

“(R)effacing the ‘Gay’ Filipino: Resistance, Postcolonialsim, and Identity”

Robert J. Morris

“Smoking the Image: The Systematic Censoring of Homotextuality from the Canon of ‘Hawaiiana’”

1991

Dwayne C. Turner • UCLA

“You Can Only Lead If We Follow: Internal Struggle of an AIDS Activist Group”

1990

Carolyn White • U of Wisconsin

“The Making of History: A Political Process”

1989

Raleigh Watts • U of Washington

“Gender Variance among Male Polynesians”

1988

Scott Bravman • U of CA Santa Cruz

“Anthropology as Politics: Language, Culture and Lesbian/Gay Theorizing”


This page was last updated on 4/16/07



The Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA) of the American Anthropological Association was founded in 1988. SOLGA promotes communication, encourages research, develops teaching materials, and serves the interests of gay and lesbian anthropologists within the association.

This site was designed by C. Todd White.