LaShandra Sullivan

About

LaShandra Sullivan is an associate professor of anthropology and co-director of the Sexualities Project at Northwestern University. She is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on land and property, racialized and gendered labor, and LGBTQ+ politics. Her current ethnographic and archival research is conducted in Mississippi and Brazil, where she studies practices of land holding and relations to property in her home state of Mississippi, as well as LGBTQ+ activism within the state. Additionally, she conducts ethnographic research with Black and LGBTQ+ activists in Rio de Janeiro. Sullivan has published extensively on topics related to LGBTQ activism, indigenous land struggles, and social resilience, including a book published in 2023 titled 'Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil'.

Research topics

• Biology
• Biochemistry
• Chemistry
• Cell biology

Selected publications

• Excess cysteine reacts with sugar metabolites and impairs proliferation of NRF2-activated cancer cells

  Figshare · 2026-04-08

  datasetOpen accessSenior author

  Source Data for Crainic and Vigil et al.

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• Excess cysteine reacts with sugar metabolites and impairs proliferation of NRF2-activated cancer cells

  Figshare · 2026-04-08

  datasetOpen accessSenior author

  Source Data for Crainic and Vigil et al.

  PublisherDOI

• Figure S3 from A Compound That Inhibits Glycolysis in Prostate Cancer Controls Growth of Advanced Prostate Cancer

  2024-07-05

  preprintOpen access

  <p>Figure S3 shows competitive proteomic profiling of 1553-N-Me.</p>

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• Figure S1 from A Compound That Inhibits Glycolysis in Prostate Cancer Controls Growth of Advanced Prostate Cancer

  2024-07-05

  preprintOpen access

  <p>Figure S1 shows evaluation of Hexokinase activity using LNCaP crude extracts and recombinant enzyme.</p>

  PublisherDOI

• Figure S10 from A Compound That Inhibits Glycolysis in Prostate Cancer Controls Growth of Advanced Prostate Cancer

  2024-07-05

  preprintOpen access

  <p>Figure S10 shows measurement of the oxygen consumption rate (OCR) and extracellular acidification rate (ECAR) using the Seahorse assay.</p>

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Recent grants

• Metabolic Constraints on Cancer Cell Proliferation

  NIH · $127k · 2018–2018

• Metabolic Constraints on Cancer Cell Proliferation

  NIH · $863k · 2018–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Anna-Lena B.G. Vigil

  121 shared

• Stephen R. Plymate

  University of Washington

  115 shared

• Kristian Davidsen

  Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa

  112 shared

• Hannah H. Hogan

  109 shared

• Haley J. Pang

  109 shared

• Ryan Choi

  109 shared

• Matthew M. Nguyen

  University of Washington

  109 shared

• Grant R. Whitman

  109 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Feinberg School of Medicine

  Northwestern University - Chicago

  2013

• B.S., Chemistry & Biochemistry

  California Polytechnic State University

  2007

Awards & honors

• Graduate Student Awards

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