Dr. Sofia Pinedo-Padoch is an anthropologist of Ukraine and the United States with a specialty in property, rebuilding, displacement, war, material culture, and bureaucracy. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Law and Anthropology department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany, where she completed her first book, Life After Death in New York City, forthcoming from New York University Press. At the Max Planck Institute, she also conducted a research project on the everyday work of civil society rebuilding initiatives in Ukraine. Prior to that, she was a faculty member of the Bard Prison Initiative and the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. Her current project, “Affordable Housing in Ukraine: Designing New and Creative Responses to the Wartime Housing Crisis” ethnographically examines the development of Ukraine’s new affordable rental housing market, building on her close collaboration with the Ukrainian NGO CO-HATY, who convert abandoned structures into homes for people displaced by war.