Evelyn Blackwood (born October 2, 1950) is an American anthropologist whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, identity, and kinship.
[2] Blackwood, a lesbian,[3] works on gender, sexuality, identity and kinship as it relates to different cultural societies in West Sumatra, Indonesia and the United States.
[2] Blackwood was the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholarship in 2001[4] and a 2007 Martin Duberman Fellowship (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York) for her research on sexuality and identity in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
[5] The research resulted in several publications, including the monograph, Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia (2010) which won the 2011 Ruth Benedict Prize.
"[2] Her current research combines anthropology and history to "explore the construction and negotiation of identity, selfhood, and sexuality among baby boomers in the U.S., focusing on women in the first generation of 'out' lesbians in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s.