Leah Bush

Leah Bush is a doctoral student in the Department of American Studies. Her research centers around an ethnographic study of relationships between identity formation, music, queer theorizing, and performances of age within music-based subcultures, with a particular focus on the Goth subculture in Baltimore. Leah holds a BA in Sociology from Eastern University, where she studied social stratification at the University of Oxford, and an MA in American Studies from the University of Maryland. She also earned the Graduate Certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture from the University of Maryland, undertaking a research practicum at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage which analyzed performance ethnography and cultural representation at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. In addition to her graduate studies, Leah is a DJ on WMUC 88.1 FM and works as a musician in the Baltimore area.