Monika De Frantz Author

Monika De Frantz is an ackowledged expert on politics and social space and has published extensively on contemporary urban cultures. Before joining the University of Chicago in 2011-12, she taught and conducted research at the University of New Orleans, the London School of Economics, the University of Vienna, the Bauhaus-University Weimar, the Humboldt University Berlin, and the European University Institute (EUI Florence). She has a PhD from the EUI Florence and studied at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Aix-Marseille, and the University of Vienna. Born and raised in Vienna, she has lived and worked in many cities across the world – a cosmopolitan experience reflected in her research for this book.