Catherine Fennell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Fennell’s ethnographic and archival work focuses on the decline and transformation of a key infrastructure of the 20th century US welfare state—subsidized housing. She is the author of Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago (Minnesota 2015), a book that examines Chicago's overhaul of its troubled public housing system and the effects of that transformation on the politics of care and inequality in Chicago. She is engaged in a new project that examines the afterlives of mortgaged housing in late industrial urban America.