Karina Biondi

Karina holds a bachelors degree in social sciences from University of Sao Paulo (USP) and a masters and doctoral degree in Social Anthropology from Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar). She is currently professor at the State University of Maranhão (UEMA), where she coordinates the Laboratory of Studies in Political Anthropology - LEAP. Karina research interests include prisoners, criminals and technologies of crime control and punishment. She wrote Junto e Misturado: uma etnografia do PCC, which had its English version published by the University of North Carolina Press under the title Sharing This Walk: An Ethnography of Prison Life PCC in Brazil (winner of the APLA 2017 Book Prize), and Proibido Roubar na Quebrada: Território, Lei e Hierarquia no PCC (that won the LASA Brazil Section Book Prize 2019). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)