Erin L. Durban

They are the author of The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti, winner of the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies[3] and the National Women's Studies/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize.

"[13] Durban received an individualized bachelor's degree in International Politics: Race, Class Gender, and Liberation from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2006.

In 2020, Durban received the prestigious McKnight Land Grant Professorship awarded to scholars with a significant impact on their fields early in their careers.

A review in American Ethnologist notes that "as the first book-length ethnography in the subfield of queer Haitian studies, The Sexual Politics of Empire marks a foundational contribution.

"[23] And in Anthropological Quarterly, the review states that "The Sexual Politics of Empire effectively gathers historical, ethnographic, and archival data to tell a compelling and moving story of postcolonial homophobia in Haiti.