Valentina Napolitano is an associate professor in the anthropology department at the University of Toronto. She has published monographs, special issues, and articles on affects, gender and migration, global Catholicism, anthropology of traces and borderlands, Michel de Certeau, and urbanities in transformation in Mexico and Italy. She is currently interested in ethnographic and critical explorations of the intersection between political economy and political theology, on Catholic living infrastructures, and on Francis as a Criollo Pope.