Laura Leisinger joins the Anthropology and Sociology department as Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Laura attended the University of South Florida鈥檚 Applied Anthropology program for her masters and doctoral studies. Rooted in a transnational feminist and Marxist political economy theoretical approach, her current ethnographic research explores Haitian migration to the U.S., emotion, the state, and social movements. She maintains active interests in the Caribbean, gender studies, and political aesthetics, and in participatory research methods and oral history.