Nicole Rosner was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and a Postdoctoral Scholar affiliated with the UChicago Department of Anthropology. Her research concerns the everyday politics of city-making and the violent reproduction of social, spatial, and racial inequality. Her regional interests lie in Latin America, particularly Brazil. Her doctoral dissertation draws on ethnographic research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to investigate divergent political reactions to the unfinished work of urbanizing, securing and greening Rio’s working-class communities. She examines how the lived experience of urban renewal in Rio’s poor peripheries over the past decade illuminates the contemporary erosion of liberal democracy in Brazil. She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled: Remaking the City, Unmaking Democracy: The Afterlives of Urban Renewal in Rio de Janeiro. Nicole’s research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays, the Inter-American Development Foundation (IAF), the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship; Global Metropolitan Studies Fellowship, the Stanley Brandes Grant for Ethnographic Field Research, and the Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Grant at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies, her MSc in City Design and Social Sciences from the London School of Economics, and her B.A. from Harvard University with honors.