Emmanuel Leon
PROFILE
emmanuel.leon.uk@gmail.com
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I am an anthropologist, project manager, art-based researcher, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. My work focuses on heritage and community-based projects that amplify the voices of global majority communities in the diaspora, promoting healing and moving beyond precarity in our personal and professional lives. My research focuses on
working with artists and makers, particularly looking at the process of constructing political personhood in the diaspora, as well as material forms of
resisting memory suppression within and in the aftermath of war.
PORTFOLIO
-Academic Work
-Visual and Plastic Work
-Public Engagement
-Management and Creative Direction
-Written and Edited Work
CV
Education
MSc Visual Material and Museum Anthropology
University of Oxford
2024 - 2025
BA Social Anthropology with Human Rights
University of Essex
2020 - 2023
Diploma Program of the International Baccalaureate
Euroamerican College
2018 - 2019
Employment Advisory Board Members
Noria Collective
April 2025 - Present
Translation Project Manager
Premium Linguistics
June 2024 - September 2024
Head of Digital Communications
UCL Multimedia Anthropology Laboratory
April 2024 - August 2024
Communication and Media Assistant
Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex
February 2022 - May 2022
Skills
Project management - application of DEI initiatives - social mobility - presenting - active listening - translation - public relations - curating in living spaces - use of Adobe Creative Suite - and use of Canvas.
Exhibitions
(Upcoming) Tracing dreams with Alasitas across Peru
Curated by Emmanuel Leon in collaboration with Franklin Mamani and Maribel Quispe.
At the University of Cambridge Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology’s Digital Laboratory.
September 2025
Drift In
Curated by Paola Esposito and the Anthropology Art Collective.
At the School of Anthropology of the University of Oxford.
Oxford, United Kingdom
June - August 2025
Ways of healing: Sentipensar
Curated by Emmanuel Leon and Daniela de la Torre.
At the Garage Imaginaries.
Oxford, United Kingdom.
June 2025
Susurros (Whispers)
Curated by Emmanuel Leon, Grecia Mendoza, Julio Cesar Reyes and Raul Loli.
At EuroIdiomas.
Lima, Perú
October 2019
AwardsConference Presentation Award
School of Anthropology,
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
2025
Platinum Big Essex Award
University of Essex,
United Kingdom
2023
Americas Regional Scholarship
University of Essex,
United Kingdom
2020
Press
‘Essex University students pay respects to Ukraine with vigil’
Daily Gazette Essex
by Macaully Moffat
2023
Last Updated 24.10.31 Academic Work
Book reviews
(Upcoming, August 2025) Review of the book Towards an operational social anthropology. Volume 1: An epistemological history of social anthropology, by M. Verdon. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 57(2).
Conference presentations
The affordances of photographic annotations: Thinking through "The Class" by Marcelo Brodsky. Paper presented at Repurposing Photographic Materials: Transforming Social, Political, and Cultural Heritage, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Volunteering and assistance
Reviewer for the Ethics Colloquium (May 2025). Reviewed abstracts, papers and poster proposals for the colloquium.
Digitisation Assistant at the Pitt Rivers Museum (January 2025 - Present)
Supported Philip Grover in digitising photographic prints taken by J. H. Hutton, a British colonial officer stationed in the Naga Hills in the 1910s,
Research Assistant at the Violent Extremism Laboratory (October 2024 - January 2025). Supported Julia Ebner with linguistic coding, translation ES>EN and transcript making of political speeches.
Assistant at the Essex Digital Verification Unit (2022)for refining the monument data using ONSIT Tools:
Gavin Grindon, Jennie Williams & Duncan Hay (11 Oct 2023): Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery. Slavery & Abolition. DOI:10.1080/0144039X.2023.2264837