People

Kath Weston

Kath Weston’s (Ph.D., Stanford University) current work focuses on political economy, political ecology and environmental issues, historical anthropology, and science studies.  She has also published widely on kinship, gender, and sexuality.  Before coming to the University of Virginia, she taught at Harvard University and Arizona State University.  She has also served as a Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, the University of Tokyo, Brandeis University, Wellesley College, and Olin College.
Dr. Weston has conducted fieldwork and archival research in North America, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.  She is a longtime member of the National Writers Union and the author of several books:

• Traveling Light: On the Road with America’s Poor (2008)
• Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age (2002)
• Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science (1998)
• Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (2nd ed. 1997)
• Render Me, Gender Me (1996)
• The Apprenticeship and Blue Collar System (1982)

Book in Progress

The Magic of Capital: A Cultural Critique of Circulation and Generation in Finance

Recent Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship (2011)

Address:
Department of Anthropology
PO Box 400120, Brooks 306
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904
weston@virginia.edu
434-924-7044

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