September 19, 2018
Congratulations to Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate George Paul Meiu, the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, for winning the 2018 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph for his book Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017). The prize, awarded annually by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA), a section of the American Anthropological Association, is for "outstanding scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic."
