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, a Fellow of Queens' College, and Visiting Scholar at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. My work brings together debates about public security, state-society relations and urbanization to raise and address new questions and understandings of development, security and governance in cities of the Global South. 

My first book, forthcoming with University of California Press, 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, 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's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Please see my CV for more details.

Photo credit: Woodrow Wilson Center