Effects of the storage conditions on the stability of natural and synthetic cannabis in biological matrices for forensic toxicology analysis: An update from the literature

Kath Weston (b. 2 November 1958) is an American anthropolist, author and academic. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has twice received the Ruth Benedict Prize for anthropological works.

Biography

Kath Weston was born in Illinois on 2 November 1958. She studied at the University of Chicago (B.A., 1978; M.A., 1981) and at Stanford University (M.A., 1984; Ph.D., 1988).^[1]

She first worked as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota from 1989 to 1990. She was then appointed assistant and later associate professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University from 1990 to 1998. She became director of studies on women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University in 2001.^[1] She is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.^[2]

Weston was appointed a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in the fields of Anthropology and Cultural Studies.^[3] She was awarded a Ruth Benedict Prize in 1990 for her monograph Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, and a second such award in 1997 for her monograph Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins.^[4]

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