{"id":11772,"date":"2022-10-05T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=11772"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:06:39","slug":"l-sasha-gora","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/l-sasha-gora\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. L. Sasha Gora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2022 \u2013 present<br \/>\nKWI International Fellow, Essen, Germany<\/p>\n<p>2022<br \/>\nPolitics of Food Resident, Delfina Foundation, London, England<\/p>\n<p>2021 \u2013 2022<br \/>\nEditorial Director &amp; Lecturer, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, Germany<\/p>\n<p>2020 \u2013 2021<br \/>\nEnvironmental Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Humanities &amp; Social Change, Ca&#8217; Foscari University of Venice, Italy<\/p>\n<p>2021<br \/>\nBavarian American Academy Dissertation Award<\/p>\n<p>2015 \u2013 2020<br \/>\nLecturer, Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich, Germany<\/p>\n<p>2015 \u2013 2020<br \/>\nDoctor of Philosophy (summa cum laude), American Cultural History, LMU Munich, Germany<\/p>\n<p>2019<br \/>\nVisiting Scholar, University of California Berkeley, USA<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 2012<br \/>\nMaster of Science, International Museum Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n<p>2005 \u2013 2010<br \/>\nBachelor of Arts, Joint Honours in Art History and International Development Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food studies<\/li>\n<li>Environmental humanities and animal studies<\/li>\n<li>North American cultural history<\/li>\n<li>Transnational migration studies<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary art, museums, and visual culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMoths, Flames, and Other Attractions,\u201d <em>Anthropocene Curriculum <\/em>(Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cToday&#8217;s Special: Reading Menus as Cultural Texts,\u201d in <em>Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement<\/em>, eds. David Szanto, Amanda Di Battista, and Irena Knezevic (Montreal: Rebus, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBuddies, Lovers, and Detours: America and its Road Movies,\u201d <em>Review of International American Studies <\/em>14, no. 2 (2021)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOn Ice: Life and Lunch at Mercato di Rialto,\u201d <em>Lagoonscapes: The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities <\/em>1, no. 1 (2021)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom Meat to Metaphor: Beavers and Conflicting Imaginations of the Edible,\u201d in <em>Canadian Culinary Imaginations<\/em>, eds. Shelley Boyd and Dorothy Barenscott (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsashagora.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":10627,"template":"","person_category":[288,654,437],"class_list":["post-11772","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-alumni","person_category-cohort-5-en","person_category-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/11772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=11772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}