kath weston

On leave 2004- 2005

Kath Weston is a sociocultural anthropologist who serves as Director of Studies for the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. She is a member of the National Writers Union and the author of several books, including Families We Choose, Render Me, Gender Me, Long Slow Burn, and the 2002 release Gender in Real Time. Among her forthcoming publications is an essay on the race/class politics of blood transfusion. Professor Weston's latest field research explores surveillance practices and what it means to live poor in a rich country. Her research interests include political economy; "intersections" of gender with race, class, and other aspects of identity; temporality; narrative; kinship; sexuality; methodology; and science metaphors in the social sciences.