PhD candidate Roy Celaire receives the 2024 John Gwaltney Scholarship Award

PhD candidate Roy Celaire won the 2024 Gwaltney Scholarship Award for his essay, “Stripping for Subjectivity in an Anti-Black World: Critical Reflections on the British documentary, The Black Full Monty”. This award is given by the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). The awarding committee observed that the “paper was noted for its originality, significance to scholarship on Blackness, performance and sexuality, and your native anthropological perspective.” The award includes $500 cash and submission of the winning essay to the journal Transforming Anthropology. Roy, who is currently conducting fieldwork in the UK researching what it means to be Black, British and gay in a post-Brexit UK, was taken aback, but also very happy and humbled by the acknowledgement of his work, an essay he had written prior to his arrival at Yale.