David De Micheli is a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. His research focuses on identity, inequality and citizenship in Brazil and latin America. His current book project leverages shifting patterns of racial identification in Brazil to provide a novel account of identity politicization and emphasizes state-led social policy expansion in shaping the individual-level formation of racial consciousness. His other research has been published in Latin American Politics and Society. He received his doctorate in 2019 from the Department of Government at Cornell University.