Dr Ana Beraldo de Carvalho

Violence, Solidarity and Community: Managing Ordinary Life on the Margins of Latin America's Unequal Cities

Funding period: 15 February 2025 – 15 August 2025
Type of funding: International Fellowship

Ana Beraldo holds a PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (2016-2020), with a two-quarters visiting period at the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Chicago, USA. She has also benefitted from a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) to work at the School of Interdisciplinary Advanced Social Studies, National University of San Martín (EIDAES/UNSAM), Argentina (2021-2024). She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Studies on Criminality and Public Safety, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). Beraldo’s research focuses on the dynamics of violence, sociability, and the production of order and governance within urban poor communities in unequal Latin American cities.

As a USF International Fellow, Beraldo will spend six months working with Professor Gabriel Feltran at Sciences Po (France) on a research project comparing marginalised spaces in Brazil and Argentina.

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