Leah Davina Junck

PdRF | Focus: 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Leah Davina Junck completed a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; with a dissertation that investigated the role of the dating application Tinder in facilitating intimacy across different places in Cape Town. Her MA research at UCT focused on suspicion and community crime patrolling in Observatory, Cape Town; her honours thesis examined the precarity of male sex work amongst a community of refugees in Cape Town. These are all published under the titles: Cultivating Suspicion: An Ethnography (Langaa RPCIG, 2019), and Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water: An Ethnography on Strategies of Bodily Navigation of Male Refugees in Cape Town (Langaa RPCIG, 2018). She holds a BA in African Languages and Literature. Leah worked as a journalist and researcher at the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) of the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, conducting policy-oriented health research. She is actively involved in the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the Network for Digital Humanities in Africa, and writes for the South African Young Academy of Science. At HUMA, her work focuses on the role of AI in medical training practices in Mozambique.