Leah Zani
Leah Zani is an anthropologist and author writing on the social impact of war. She received her PhD and MA in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine and has since been awarded several grants and fellowships, including the Human Rights Center Fellowship, the Social Science Merit Fellowship, the Social Science Research Network Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellowship. She has conducted research with both academic and development organizations internationally, including as a Human Rights Research Fellow with the Nobel prize-winning Mines Advisory Group in Laos. She is the author of Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos (Duke University Press, 2019). Her writing has appeared in American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Humanities, Asian Ethnology, Anthropology and Humanism, Somatosphere, Platypus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review Online, Consequence Magazine and Tikkun Magazine.
