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Brittany Leach
Brittany Leach, Assistant Professor
Political Science, Sociology
Brittany R. Leach is an Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology. She received a PhD in Political Theory with a secondary concentration in Comparative Politics from the University of Virginia (UVA) and an MA in Political Science & International Affairs from the University of Georgia. Previously, she was a Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship at the Citizens & Scholars Foundation and served a two-year term as an Assistant Editor at the journal Political Theory. She has published articles on abortion politics in the American Political Science Review, Contemporary Political Theory, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Additionally, she is active in public scholarship and community engagement.
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Prof. Leach’s primary areas of research and teaching are feminist political theory, intersectionality, reproductive freedom and justice, transnational feminism, gender & the law, and social movements. Her current book project, tentatively entitled Reproductive Freedom Beyond Individualism: Abortion, Bodily Autonomy, and Feminist Community aims to complicate borders and boundaries in the context of pregnant bodies and bodies politic, arguing that blurring distinctions between individual and community can reinforce rather than undermine feminist defenses of reproductive autonomy.