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Leonora Zoninsein
Leonora Zoninsein is a geographer and artist researching the materiality of the senses. She explores the colonial extractive and imperial scientific legacies in fragrance and the way these echo through the contemporary global chemical industry. She is currently a research scientist at Gallatin College Wetlab, a climate change arts and science public education initiative. She received a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of California, Berkeley, where her doctoral work was funded by Mellon/ACLS, Georges Lurcy, Evelyn L. Pruitt, and Center for Craft, Creativity and Design grants. Leonora has an M.Sc. in water science, policy and management from the University of Oxford, and is a perfumer making custom blends and conceptual fragrances through her scent studio, NIGHT AIR.
Contact: Gallatin College, 1 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA.