Collegiate Affiliation
Instructor Tenure Track,
Sociology
Links
www.nataliaotto.com

Olá! My areas of specialization are critical and feminist criminology, narrative methods, and the sociology of punishment, gender, and urban marginality. In my work, I analyze biographical interviews, media accounts, institutional archives, and judicial documents to investigate (i) how gendered, racialized, and economic structures inform narratives of crime and violence and (ii) how these narratives sustain patterns of interpersonal and state violence. I'm currently working on a book project about how economic precarity, state violence, the transnational cocaine economy, and gendered violence meet and enmesh in the lives of young women working at the bottom of the cocaine economy in the deep south of South America, in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. 
 

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • PhD: Sociology, University of Toronto, Expected 2025
  • Master's Degree: Sociology, University of São Paulo, 2017

Specialties

  • Critical Criminology
  • Sociology of Punishment
  • Gender, Crime, and Violence
  • Narrative Methods