Cristiana Strava is a social anthropologist trained at Harvard University and SOAS, London with a broad interest in urban spaces, economic inequality, and the politics of planning and development regimes. She has conducted research in Morocco, Nigeria, and Tanzania, and her work has received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Royal Anthropological Society, the UK ESRC, the Max Planck Society, and the IJURR Foundation. She is interested in how hegemonic power works and is contested in mundane ways and through ordinary spaces, and is particularly preoccupied with the tension between structures and agency in urban space. She currently teaches, researches, and writes about these things at Leiden University. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in City and Society, Middle East Topics and Arguments, Journal of North African Studies, Focaal and Etnofoor. Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco (Zed Books, 2022) is her first monograph.
