I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Toronto and received my PhD from MIT. My current book project is based on a multi-year study focusing on homicide detectives' investigations of both homicides and police killings of citizens, and the links between these forms of violence and governance of urban space in São Paulo, Brazil. More broadly, I am interested in questions of public institutions, state-society relations, urban space and cities with decentralized violence.
My research has been funded by the Open Society Foundations and 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. Prior to my academic career I worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Cape Verde Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Centre for the Study of Resource Conflict (CCSRC), which I co-founded in 2005. While at MIT, I was affiliated with the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies, the Program on Human Rights and Justice and a USAID-funded research project on Urban Resilience in Violent Cities.
My work on urban violence, police, and the struggle for public security in cities has been published in academic journals and in the New York Times Sunday Review, among other venues. I have also been quoted widely and referenced as a emergent voice on the nature of policing, violence, and non-state armed groups in vital cities of the Global South. My research with the CCSRC on the Canadian extractive sector and its operations in the Global South has also been published in or quoted by Canadian Members of Parliament, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC and other major media outlets. Please see my CV for more details.
My research has been funded by the Open Society Foundations and 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. Prior to my academic career I worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Cape Verde Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Centre for the Study of Resource Conflict (CCSRC), which I co-founded in 2005. While at MIT, I was affiliated with the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies, the Program on Human Rights and Justice and a USAID-funded research project on Urban Resilience in Violent Cities.
My work on urban violence, police, and the struggle for public security in cities has been published in academic journals and in the New York Times Sunday Review, among other venues. I have also been quoted widely and referenced as a emergent voice on the nature of policing, violence, and non-state armed groups in vital cities of the Global South. My research with the CCSRC on the Canadian extractive sector and its operations in the Global South has also been published in or quoted by Canadian Members of Parliament, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC and other major media outlets. Please see my CV for more details.
