Dennis Rodgers (Bangkok, 1973) is Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was previously professor at the Universities of Amsterdam, Glasgow, Manchester, and the London School of Economics. A social anthropologist by training, his research focuses on issues relating to the dynamics of conflict and violence in cities in Latin America (Nicaragua, Argentina) and South Asia (India). Much of his work focuses on the study of youth gangs – he has been conducting longitudinal ethnographic research on Nicaraguan gangs since 1996 – but he has also worked on issues of urban inequality, the politics of socio-spatial segregation, participatory governance, the historiography of urban theory, and the epistemology of development knowledge. He has published over 120 authored and edited books, journal special issues, articles and book chapters published across different disciplines (Anthropology, Criminology, Development Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and Urban Studies). He was recently awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project on “Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Comparative Global Ethnography” (2019-2023).