Lecture with Marco Garrido

Title Forthcoming

Marco Garrido
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago

Marco Garrido is a political and urban sociologist who researches democracy, corruption, social inequality, and segregation, primarily focusing on the Philippines alongside work on Singapore, Cambodia, and the United States. Author of The Patchwork City, which examined class and urban space in Manila, he is currently wrapping up a book titled Bad Words and recently co-published A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption. His current projects include editing a volume that challenges conventional frameworks of Philippine politics and embarking on a new ethnography of Philippine democracy. Through this new book, Garrido aims to chart a distinct sociology of democracy that explains the country's recent illiberal turn by focusing on people's lived experiences rather than traditional political science frameworks of "democratic backsliding."