Lisa Björkman is a political ethnographer and urban anthropologist. An Associate Professor at the University of Louisville, she is currently based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Lisa is author of Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai (Duke University Press 2015); Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories (Columbia University Press, 2020); Bombay Brokers (Duke University Press, 2021); and Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (University of Minnesota Press). Lisa’s new ethnographic collaboration, Napoli Navigators is forthcoming with Berghahn Books.