Renugan Raidoo is a PhD candidate in social anthropology at Harvard University. His research concerns lifestyle estates in the Gauteng city region, their political economic origins, and their social and spatial consequences. Previous research has focused on secrecy and homophobia in urban Sierra Leone. His dissertation research has been funded by awards from various sources at Harvard University, an Emslie Horniman Scholarship from the Royal Anthropological Institute/Sutasoma Award, and the Fulbright-Hays program. He holds an MPhil in social anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, as well as a BA in anthropology and a BS (with honors) in chemistry from the University of Iowa. His academic work has appeared in the edited volume Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City (Wits University Press, 2020), and in the jouirnals Langmuir and Journal of Materials Chemistry. Renugan’s public scholarship has appeared in The Mail & Guardian and MambaOnline.