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.
Featured Work
- Unlocking Human Centered AI: Building Inclusive Futures Through Community Engagement
- Bridging Worlds: The Role of Digital Anthropology in Shaping Fair Tech Futures
- Unscripted or the Familiar Strange: On Anthropology, Tech Failures and AI curiosities
- Almost Human? The Quiet Politics of Frontier AI
- The State of AI in Africa: A Landscape Study
- Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI for Development in LMICs