STREULE ULLOA NIETO, MONIKA

Monika Streule is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City. Her research engages with the social production of space, urbanization processes and inventive methodologies of qualitative research. She is interested in comparative urbanism and a relational understanding of urban territory from post- and decolonial perspectives for a more global approach to understanding cities. Currently, Monika is PI of the research project "Territorialities in Resistance to Urban Extractivism", which seeks to understand socio-environmental conflicts and the leading role of women* in social organizations. The project focuses on the study of sports megaprojects in the context of the 2026 World Cup.

Monika received her PhD in Urban Studies from ETH Zürich and holds a MA in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Sciences from the University of Zurich. She has received several grants, including the Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellowship from the European Union and the Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the Swiss National Science Fund (SNSF). She was a visiting researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM in several occasions, and conducted post-doctoral studies at the London School of Economics, the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University College London, at the HafenCity University Hamburg and at the Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría CUJAE. She is an associated researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas UCB, La Paz, Bolivia.