Department of Anthropology

David Valentine

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Anthropology 364 HHH Center
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Cultural and linguistic anthropology
  • social justice movements
  • gender and sexuality, queer theory
  • The idea of the future
  • commercial space exploration

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Anthropology, New York University, NYC, NY, 2000.

Publications

  • Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. Valentine, David, Duke University Press, Author, 2007. Link
  • The categories themselves.: Valentine, David, GLQ, 10 215-220, 2004.
  • “The Calculus of Pain”: Violence, Anthropological Ethics, and the Category Transgender. Valentine, David, 2003.
  • “I went to bed with my own kind once”: The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity. Valentine, David, 2003.

Research Activities

  • Imagining Transgender: My research on the concept of transgender in the U.S. has been published as "Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category" (2007, Duke UP), September 1996 - To date
  • Futures in (Commercial) Space: This project examines the shift toward space exploration led by private enterprise rather than by States. What kinds of futures are imagined by corporate actors, and how do such futures also enable a reimagining of Earth history?, In progress
  • "Admirers" and Identity: This project, in conjunction with the Program in Human Sexuality, examines the identities of men who have sex with transgender-identified people. The broader goal of my project is to examine the concept of identity itself as a trope., 2008 - 2009

Awards

  • Ruth Benedict Book Prize (SOLGA/AAA) for Imagining Transgender, 2007
  • Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America (Honorable Mention) for Imagining Transgender, 2008
  • Lambda Literary Award Finalist (Nonfiction Category) for Imagining Transgender, 2008

Courses Taught

  • Anth 8810 - Futures
  • Anth 8805 - Linguistic Anthropology
  • Anth 8203 - Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Anth 5980 - Anthropology of Sexuality and Gender
  • Anth 4047 - Anthropology of American Culture
  • Anth 3005 - Language, Culture, and Power
  • Anth 1005 - Introduction to Cultural Diversity and the World System
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