Professor Dr. Samantha Leonard

Biography

Samantha Leonard studies gender and sexuality, with a focus on gender-based violence, social movements, and social change. Her scholarly work explores the intersections of power, gender, and sexuality, addressing questions regarding the cultural, temporal, and institutional dimensions of sexual and gender-based violence prevention and resistance. Currently, she is working on a book project that examines the roles of social service providers and activists in the United States and Argentina in preventing, responding to, and resisting intimate partner and sexual violence. Recent projects have delved into the social architecture of collective violence and the gendered experiences of economic inequality and precarity. Samantha's work has been published in various academic journals, including Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, Ethnography, and the European Journal of Social Theory. At the University of Michigan, she teaches courses on sexual citizenship.

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