About
Samantha Leonard studies gender and sexuality, gender-based violence, and social movements and social change. In her scholarly and pedagogical work, she is interested in exploring the intersections of power, gender, sexuality, and violence through questions on the cultural, temporal, and institutional dimensions of sexual and gender-based violence and its prevention and resistance. Her current research and book project focuses on how social service providers and activists in the United States and Argentina prevent, respond to, and resist intimate partner and sexual violence. In other recent projects, she has examined the social architecture of collective violence and gendered experiences of economic inequality and precarity. Samantha’s work has been published in Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, Ethnography, and the European Journal of Social Theory. At the University of Michigan, Sam teaches courses on sexual citizenship.
