Dr Leah Davina Junck is a Senior Researcher at GCG and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town.
Her research focuses on human-technology interactions and socio-technical imaginaries. Particular focus areas are intimacies, critical digital literacy, and women’s and children’s rights in the age of AI.
She is the author of the books “Cultivating Suspicion: An Ethnography” and “Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water: An Ethnography on Strategies of Bodily Navigation of Male Refugees in Cape Town”, both published by Langaa RPCIG.
She is also co-editor of the “Intersections: AI in Society” Majority World Collection, published by Oxford University Press, as well as various academic papers and op-eds.
Leah serves as a board member of the regional journal Anthropology Southern Africa and acts as Chair of the Commission for Digital Anthropology as part of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.