Carolina Sternberg is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. Her main areas of research and teaching combine urban studies, Latin American studies, and urban policies in both U.S. and Latin American settings. Her work has also examined the relationship between gentrification and race in African American and Latinx/e communities in Chicago, and the travails of domestic workers in Chicago. She is currently advancing her research on the unhoused population in Buenos Aires through a feminist care ethics lens. She joined the Carework Network Steering Committee in September 2023. 

Select Publications:

Farias, M. and Sternberg, C. (2023) Mobilizing care and housing access. Demanding responses to the local state in Buenos Aires in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, Special Issue on: «Housing Crisis and Social Mobilization in times of COVID19», Partecipazione e Conflitto Journal, 16 (1): 24-42. 

Sternberg, C. (2021) The hidden inequities and divisions among workers in the US: the domestic workers workforce as non-essential workers. In: “Global Reflections on COVID-19 Urban Inequalities”, Chapter 4, Volume 1, Community and Society, Bristol University Press. Pp. 41-50. 

Sternberg, C. (2019) The Hidden Hand of Domestic Labor: Domestic Employers’ Work Practices in Chicago, USA. Frontiers of Sociology, Dec 11:4:80