I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Toronto. My work brings together debates about public security, state-society relations and urbanization to raise and address new questions and understandings of police, security and governance in cities of the Global South.
My first book is an ethnographic study of homicide detectives' investigations of police killings of citizens and homicides carried out by an organized crime group, establishing links between forms of violence and consensual governance of urban space in São Paulo, Brazil. An earlier version of the manuscript received the Best Dissertation award from the Latin American Studies Association's Brazil Section.
My current work examines newly predominant forms of associational life in response to real or perceived perpetrators of crime and violence that test the normative boundaries of social movement theory and the empirical borderlines of states in the contemporary world.
I engage theory critically in my work via publications in leading peer reviewed journals and book manuscripts but also seek to advance public debate by periodically contributing to outlets such as the New York Times and the Boston Review.
These and other projects have been funded by competitive grants from the Open Society Foundations, the Social Science Research Council, the Social Science Research Council of Canada, Foreign Affairs Canada, the Center for International Studies at MIT, MISTI-Brazil and the Carroll L. Wilson Fellowship, among others. I have a Ph.D. from MIT, an M.A. from Royal Roads University and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. Please see my CV for more details.
My first book is an ethnographic study of homicide detectives' investigations of police killings of citizens and homicides carried out by an organized crime group, establishing links between forms of violence and consensual governance of urban space in São Paulo, Brazil. An earlier version of the manuscript received the Best Dissertation award from the Latin American Studies Association's Brazil Section.
My current work examines newly predominant forms of associational life in response to real or perceived perpetrators of crime and violence that test the normative boundaries of social movement theory and the empirical borderlines of states in the contemporary world.
I engage theory critically in my work via publications in leading peer reviewed journals and book manuscripts but also seek to advance public debate by periodically contributing to outlets such as the New York Times and the Boston Review.
These and other projects have been funded by competitive grants from the Open Society Foundations, the Social Science Research Council, the Social Science Research Council of Canada, Foreign Affairs Canada, the Center for International Studies at MIT, MISTI-Brazil and the Carroll L. Wilson Fellowship, among others. I have a Ph.D. from MIT, an M.A. from Royal Roads University and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. Please see my CV for more details.
Photo credit: Woodrow Wilson Center
