#  George Paul Meiu Receives 2018 Ruth Benedict Prize 

 





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](http://queeranthro.org/2018/08/10/announcing-the-2018-ruth-benedict-book-prize-winners/) 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." 

 

 

 



 

 

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