Lola holds a BA in Anthropology from Wesleyan University, where she wrote an urban anthropology thesis examining Angelenos' relationships with their cars and the freeway infrastructure of Los Angeles. After working in cultural analysis for a market research company, Lola moved to Galicia in Spain, where she researched everyday practices and usage of public space. She made an ethnographic film on a cured ham shop that serves as a site for the transmission of local folklore. She is interested in themes collective memory, heritage, infrastructure, belonging, and cultural preservation and transmission. At Berkeley, she looks forward to exploring how Folklore’s focus on informal, unofficial, popular, and alternative practices can bridge theories and methods in the humanities with urban studies practices.
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Archivist
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Folklore
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