Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and holds the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the founding Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Roy is the author of Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010) and City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (2003), and co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (2003). She also led a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network on Housing Justice in Unequal Cities, which helped establish a global field of inquiry into housing justice shared by scholars working in universities and in social movements. 

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