Margarethe Kusenbach is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Her research interests include cities and communities, space and place, social psychology (identity and emotions), disasters and environment, and qualitative research methods. She has published widely in the U.S. and internationally, including the 2013 book Home: International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging (with Krista Paulsen). For the past several years, her work has focused on issues of home and belonging in marginalized communities, while her new research investigates the intersection of street art and urban development in North American and European cities.