Layla Ardalan - Research Intern

Layla Ardalan is a junior at Barnard College majoring in Sociology. She is passionate about intercultural relations, transnational identities, and the dynamics which shape these communities. Previously, she worked as a Research Intern at Barnard’s Sociology Department, where she conducted ethnographic research on the Arab community in Astoria, with a focus on the ways surveillance operates both internally and externally. Her interests center on migration, identity formation, and diaspora studies.