Leah (MA 2021) arrived from New York City after finishing her undergraduate work at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. A current member of the Folklore program at U.C. Berkeley, she is motivated to research how nationalism and visual media inform sexual subjectivities. In her current research, she examines libidinal identities and their implications in practices of global gentrification. She hopes to better understand how popular perceptions of gender, authenticity, and sexuality have been discursively shaped in the past by the present and in the present by the past. During the time in her masters program, Leah looks forward to working closely with scholarship that focuses on womxn, the body, gender, and sexuality in folklore and postcolonial studies. She is currently studying Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at Tisch NYU.
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