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Leif Johnson
PhD Candidate
Instructor

I'm a geographer interested in migration, borders, citizenship, and gender. While my current work is focused on internal migration within China, I'm interested in border politics writ large, and in trying to figure out how to get around, past, or under the boundaries that are thrown up against migration around the world.  In the past, I've worked on U.S.-focused migrant solidarity, but my current work outside of academia is focused on translation, working with radical and activist projects on Spanish-English and Chinese-English translations of texts and news from outside the U.S.  

Contact Information
lajo236@g.uky.edu
822 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-6956
Education
MA - University of Kentucky, 2015: Geography
BA - Macalester College, 2011: Latin American Studies and International Studies
Research Interests
  • China
  • Critical Masculinity Studies
  • Gender studies
  • migration
  • citizenship
  • translation
Affiliations
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Geography
  • Association of American Geographers
  • UK China Studies Research Group