Mo Torres is a PhD candidate in sociology, a Stone Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a doctoral fellow in the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. He is broadly interested in questions of urban politics, race and class inequality, and political economy. His dissertation investigates the politics of austerity and urban governance in Michigan from the 1970s to the present. Other projects include research on fringe banking, place and policing, and the sociology of race and racism. Before Harvard, Mo studied public policy at the University of Michigan, and history and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is a former middle and high school teacher and in 2019 was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil, where he studied the politics of prison privatization at the Universidade de São Paulo.

Project:  Who Governs the Crisis City?