I am a University Lecturer in Development Studies and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at Queens' College, and Visiting Scholar at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.
My current work examines how new technologies collide with organized crime and policing, raising questions about development, security and governance in cities of the Global South. I am concerned with how the use of social media in unconventional ways reflects contextual challenges to technology as a transformative project, especially when it comes to violence and security.
In a previous project, my first book (UC Press 2015), I carried out 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.
As a dissertation it won three awards: Best Dissertation award from the Latin American Studies Association's Brazil Section, Honourable Mention for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation from the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Honourable Mention for the Gill Chin-Lim Award for Best Dissertation in International Planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
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 and Humanities 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 PhD from MIT. Please see my CV for more details.
My current work examines how new technologies collide with organized crime and policing, raising questions about development, security and governance in cities of the Global South. I am concerned with how the use of social media in unconventional ways reflects contextual challenges to technology as a transformative project, especially when it comes to violence and security.
In a previous project, my first book (UC Press 2015), I carried out 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.
As a dissertation it won three awards: Best Dissertation award from the Latin American Studies Association's Brazil Section, Honourable Mention for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation from the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Honourable Mention for the Gill Chin-Lim Award for Best Dissertation in International Planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
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 and Humanities 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 PhD from MIT. Please see my CV for more details.
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