eplemons[at]arizona[dot]edu

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2019-               University of Arizona
                        Associate Professor, School of Anthropology

                        Co-Chair, Transgender Studies Research Cluster
                        Affiliated Faculty, Department of Gender & Women's Studies
                        Affiliated Faculty, Graduate Program in Social, Cultural & Critical Theory
                        Affiliated Faculty, Institute for LGBT Studies

2015-2019       University of Arizona

                        Assistant Professor, School of Anthropology

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2012-15           University of Michigan
                        Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
                        Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows
                        Affiliated Faculty, Doctoral Program in Anthropology & History

EDUCATION
PhD University of California Berkeley, Anthropology, 2012
MA University of Chicago, Social Sciences, 2005
BA DePauw University, History, cum laude, 1999

Selected AWARDS & GRANTS

2022 NEH Public Scholar

2022 Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship

2019 UAHS & Colby Olsen Foundation Stonewall 50th Award

2018 Coolidge Fellowship, CrossCurrents Foundation

2017 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph awarded to The Look of a Woman
2017 University of Arizona Office of LGBT Student Affairs Fabulous Faculty Award

2013 Faculty Seed Grant, University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender 
2012-2015 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Michigan Society of Fellows
2011 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures
2011 Kenneth W. Payne Prize, Association for Queer Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
2011 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, The Wenner-Gren Foundation
2010 University of California Regents Fellowship

INVITED LECTURES
2024      McGill University

2022      Stanford University

2020      University of Chicago

2020      Colorado State University

2020      Penn State University

2019      Karlstad University (Sweden)

2019      Northwestern University

2019      Colgate University​

2017      Duke University

2017      Duke University, College of Medicine

2017      Butler University

2017      DePauw University

2016      University of Utah, College of Medicine

2015      University of Arizona, College of Medicine

2015      University of Michigan, College of Medicine

2014      University of Copenhagen
2014      University of California Berkeley
2013      Pacific University

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Anthropological Association (Association for Queer Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology), American Studies Association, American Sociological Association