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Dr. Sara Leon Spesny is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She holds a PhD from the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France, 2020) under Prof. Didier Fassin. Her research focuses on state violence, policing practices in Latin America, and maternal healthcare access for marginalized populations. She is affiliated with the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and the Sydney Environment Institute.
Key research areas include postcolonial analysis of police violence in Brazil’s favelas, human rights frameworks in policing, and intersections of citizenship and inequality. Her ethnographic work examines how 'soft' policing strategies paradoxically reinforce urban and symbolic borders. Recent publications include a critical genealogy of necropolitical state power (2024) and studies on military police morality in Rio de Janeiro (2020).
- Teaching: SCLG1001, SCLG1002, SLSS3602, CRIM2602
- Grants: Received funding from EU Phoenix Program, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and Sydney University’s FASS COVID Kick Start Fund (2022)
- Publications: Over 8 peer-reviewed articles and contributions to Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias on urban studies
Awards include a prestigious doctoral fellowship (2013) and multiple conference presentation grants. Her current research explores environmental justice and humanitarian governance frameworks.
