erin l. durban
@erindurban.bsky.social
🐌 assoc. prof. of anthro and critical disability studies
❤️ feminist studies PhD
📖 author of the sexual politics of empire: postcolonial homophobia in haiti
♿️ project about collective access in ethnographic research for social justice and abolition
❤️ feminist studies PhD
📖 author of the sexual politics of empire: postcolonial homophobia in haiti
♿️ project about collective access in ethnographic research for social justice and abolition
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Hi, BlueSky, I’m Erin (they/them)! This account will focus on my work as an interdisciplinary professor in critical disability studies. My first book, The Sexual Politics of Empire, recently won a Lambda Literary Award. Now I’m writing a new book about disability accessibility and ethnography.
AAA roundtable for The Disabled Anthropologist: Erin L. Durban, Sumi Colligan, Valerie Black (on screen), Anna Jaysane-Darr, Krisjon Olsen, Alana Ackerman, and Kim Fernandes (missing Megan Moodie who also joined by Zoom)
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
AAA roundtable for The Disabled Anthropologist: Erin L. Durban, Sumi Colligan, Valerie Black (on screen), Anna Jaysane-Darr, Krisjon Olsen, Alana Ackerman, and Kim Fernandes (missing Megan Moodie who also joined by Zoom)
Tomorrow is the hybrid launch event at UCSB for our Journal of Haitian Studies special issue on “The Rights to Live Creatively!”
May 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Tomorrow is the hybrid launch event at UCSB for our Journal of Haitian Studies special issue on “The Rights to Live Creatively!”
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20 minute online presentation about the Disabled Anthropologist Oral History Project on May 9!
April 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
20 minute online presentation about the Disabled Anthropologist Oral History Project on May 9!
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Sorry, I’m at the bookstore. ♥️📚
April 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sorry, I’m at the bookstore. ♥️📚
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Since I have so many new followers, I'm re-upping the announcement that MY BOOK IS OUT! It's called Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology, and it's the result of 100 interviews with archaeologists, eight years of work, and so much community support! www.routledge.com/9780367743987 🏺
Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology: Career Arcs
Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism affect the demographics of archaeology and discusses how knowledge that archaeologi...
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November 12, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Since I have so many new followers, I'm re-upping the announcement that MY BOOK IS OUT! It's called Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology, and it's the result of 100 interviews with archaeologists, eight years of work, and so much community support! www.routledge.com/9780367743987 🏺
Sorry, I’m at the bookstore. ♥️📚
April 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sorry, I’m at the bookstore. ♥️📚
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Check out episode 51 of Contra*, a podcast about disability, design justice, and the lifeworld. In this episode, Kelsie Acton discusses the educational resource, Cripping Pandemic Learning in Higher Education.
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Check out episode 51 of Contra*, a podcast about disability, design justice, and the lifeworld. In this episode, Kelsie Acton discusses the educational resource, Cripping Pandemic Learning in Higher Education.
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Check it out! This is going to be a great conversation on environmental justice & disability justice
ucr.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
ucr.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Check it out! This is going to be a great conversation on environmental justice & disability justice
ucr.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
ucr.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
TODAY! A conversation with students at the UMN Disability Student Cultural Center.
April 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
TODAY! A conversation with students at the UMN Disability Student Cultural Center.
20 minute online presentation about the Disabled Anthropologist Oral History Project on May 9!
April 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
20 minute online presentation about the Disabled Anthropologist Oral History Project on May 9!
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The book is officially out today! I can't wait to return to Chicago and hold my copy in hand! @socmedanthro.bsky.social
In "Between Families and Institutions" @zhiyingma.bsky.social examines how the contemporary Chinese state’s biopolitical governance impacts families’ involvement in the psychiatric care of their close relatives. Read the intro for free now! #Anthropology #AsianStudies
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April 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The book is officially out today! I can't wait to return to Chicago and hold my copy in hand! @socmedanthro.bsky.social
Just reminding folks that BlueSky doesn’t have privacy settings yet.
April 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just reminding folks that BlueSky doesn’t have privacy settings yet.
20% off The Disabled Anthropologist at Routledge!
The Disabled Anthropologist
This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that “disabled” and “anthropologist” belong together. The disabled anthropologists who contribute to this volume and on...
www.routledge.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
20% off The Disabled Anthropologist at Routledge!
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Featuring Drs. Angela Carter, Erin Durban, Jessica Horvath Williams, and Jennie Row!
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Featuring Drs. Angela Carter, Erin Durban, Jessica Horvath Williams, and Jennie Row!
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UMN Critical Disability Studies Conversation on April 14.
Critical Disability Studies Conversation
A RIDGS 10th Anniversary Event
cla.umn.edu
March 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
UMN Critical Disability Studies Conversation on April 14.
UMN Critical Disability Studies Conversation on April 14.
Critical Disability Studies Conversation
A RIDGS 10th Anniversary Event
cla.umn.edu
March 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
UMN Critical Disability Studies Conversation on April 14.
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Researchers from the two collaborative ethnographic projects highlighted on the “Cripping Ethnography” panel at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Portland, OR. @sumicol.bsky.social @kikiyates.bsky.social @mirandadj.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Researchers from the two collaborative ethnographic projects highlighted on the “Cripping Ethnography” panel at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Portland, OR. @sumicol.bsky.social @kikiyates.bsky.social @mirandadj.bsky.social
Researchers from the two collaborative ethnographic projects highlighted on the “Cripping Ethnography” panel at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Portland, OR. @sumicol.bsky.social @kikiyates.bsky.social @mirandadj.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Researchers from the two collaborative ethnographic projects highlighted on the “Cripping Ethnography” panel at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Portland, OR. @sumicol.bsky.social @kikiyates.bsky.social @mirandadj.bsky.social
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Cripping ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research panel! @sumicol.bsky.social @erindurban.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Cripping ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research panel! @sumicol.bsky.social @erindurban.bsky.social
Grateful for two days of the NSF “Disability Anthropology Across Four Fields” workshop! ❤️
March 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Grateful for two days of the NSF “Disability Anthropology Across Four Fields” workshop! ❤️
Our good news at UMN Critical Disability Studies is official! 🤓
Critical Disability Studies Receives $500,000 Grant
This funding will allow CDS to develop proposals for a curriculum leading to an undergraduate and graduate program.
cla.umn.edu
March 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Our good news at UMN Critical Disability Studies is official! 🤓
Our “Cripping Ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research” panel with @sumicol.bsky.social, @mirandadj.bsky.social, @kikiyates.bsky.social, and Sailer will be available by Zoom next Wednesday at 9am Pacific/Noon Eastern. Send me a note if you want the link!
March 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our “Cripping Ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research” panel with @sumicol.bsky.social, @mirandadj.bsky.social, @kikiyates.bsky.social, and Sailer will be available by Zoom next Wednesday at 9am Pacific/Noon Eastern. Send me a note if you want the link!
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Today marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting New York City. Despite adversity, our city showed remarkable resilience.
Discover tales of ableism and disability activism in "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic," a chronicle into the lives reshaped by the crisis.
Discover tales of ableism and disability activism in "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic," a chronicle into the lives reshaped by the crisis.
March 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting New York City. Despite adversity, our city showed remarkable resilience.
Discover tales of ableism and disability activism in "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic," a chronicle into the lives reshaped by the crisis.
Discover tales of ableism and disability activism in "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic," a chronicle into the lives reshaped by the crisis.