Sophia DeLeonibus

Sophia DeLeonibus is a fifth-year PhD candidate. Her dissertation tracks the history of gender identity from the term’s origin in midcentury American psychoanalysis and sexology to its central role in culture wars today. 

 

At Yale, Sophia is affiliated with the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities and she has served as the co-chair of the Modern Europe Colloquium. She holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Grinnell College.