Leyla Savloff
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Email: lsavloff@elon.edu
Professional Expertise
Brief Biography
News & Notes
Education
PhD Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, 2020
Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies, University of Washington, 2013
MA Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, 2009
BA Liberal Arts, Social and Historical Inquiry, Eugene Lang College, 2006
Courses Taught
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Qualitative Research Methods
Anthropology of Sex and Gender
Disability Justice
Study Abroad in Argentina: Latin American Social Movements
Anthropology of the Body
Senior Seminar in Anthropology
WGSS Sex and Gender
WGSS Current Controversies in Feminism
ANT/ SOC 4999 Independent Research
HNR 4998 Honors Thesis
ANT 4986 Internship in Anthropology
ANT 4990 Teaching and Learning Apprenticeship
WGS 4991 Independent Research
Leadership Positions
Co-Coordinator Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies 2023 – 2026
Co-Director Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies (PERCS) 2022 – 2024
Latinx/Hispanic Advisory Council 2023 – 2025
Advisory Board Latin American Studies 2020 – Present
Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society 2022 – 2026
Fulbright พรพรศศ Committee 2023 – Present
SMART Mentoring Program 2023 – Present
Publications
Peer-Review Articles
“Love at the End of the World: Sex Work Politics and Feminist Anarchism in Argentina,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 55, Issue 5: 1-17. July 2026.
“The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty,” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 2023; 1–11.
“Putas y Discas: Sex Work Activism and Disability Justice in Argentina,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 42 (2) Spring 2022
“Deviant Motherhood: House Arrest and Social Belonging in Argentina,” Social Text, Issue 38.1 (142) March 2020. Duke University Press.
Book Chapters
“Community Feminism and Collective Poetry in Latin America” in Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing: Experiments in Philosophy. Ada Jaarsma and Lauren Guilmette, eds. Duke University Press, 2026. ISBN 9781478038757
“Putes Feministas: Gender-Expansive Language and Social Media Activism,” Critical Sexuality Studies, Lavender Languages and Everyday Life. Michelle Marzullo and William Leap, eds. Bloomsbury Press, 2024. ISBN 1350359955
“Freedom in Practice: Art and the Politics of Women’s Incarceration in Argentina,” Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. Shir Lerman and Ronnie Shepard, eds. Lexington Books. ISBN 1498572847
Other publications
“Feminist Anthropology Today” María Lis Baiocchi and Leyla Savloff. Anthropology News website, November 3, 2024.
“Prison Abolition as Collective Poetry in Latin America” in Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education. Volume 2: Political and Social Movements. Edited by Nina Mehta, Donna Nevel, and Jason Wozniak. Bloomsbury Press (Forthcoming).
Awards
2026 Honorable Mention Gender Justice Prize – American Anthropological Association
2023 Sylvia Molloy Award – Best Article in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association
Latinx/Hispanic Service Award, พรพรศศ
2019 Zora Neale Hurston Award – Association for Feminist Anthropology
2019 UW Latinx Scholars Graduate School Fellowship
2018 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
2018 Dr. Clyde Snow Fund for Latin American Studies