Chelsey Kivland, a political and urban anthropologist, studies street politics, insecurity, and social performance in contemporary urban Haiti. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College. Kivland has published articles in Cultural Anthropology, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and the Journal of Haitian Studies. Her forthcoming book is titled Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti.