Lauren (LG) Fadiman (she/hers) is a second-year graduate student in History interested in the pathologization of political dissidence and the political abuse of psychiatry in the United States during the Interwar period. Previously, she completed her undergraduate degree in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University — culminating in a thesis project concerning the folkloric impact of the cell phone on American popular culture — with a joint-concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a secondary field in Celtic Languages and Literatures, focusing on Modern and Middle Welsh. Outside the classroom, she is an independent folklorist and writer — whose work on conspiracy theories, contemporary legends, and the cultural periphery, has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The Baffler, Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Drift, Orion, and Real Life — as well as an assistant editor at Jacobin. Some of her hobbies include quilting, camping, cooking, writing fiction, and singing Sacred Harp; and she would love to talk with you about anything, especially grad school, public writing, tenant organizing, and the contemporary Left.
