Dr. Stephanie Assaf  is a researcher at the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies (MALI), at The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) together with the Minerva Center at the University of Haifa (Israel), associated with the Cascading and Complex Extreme Conditions program since 2024. Researcher in postdoctoral internship in the postgraduate program in Social History at UFRJ (PPGHIS – IFCS – UFRJ, Brazil), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michel Gherman since 2024. Associate professor of the Architecture and Urbanism course at Centro Universitário UNA (Brazil) since August 2021. PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at IPPUR – UFRJ, Brazil (2024), master in Social Anthropology at PPGAn – UFMG, Brazil (2016), specialist in Urban Politics and Planning at IPPUR – UFRJ, Brazil (2017), and graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at EA – UFMG, Brazil (2011). Experience in the areas of Social Anthropology, Urbanism, Urban History, Urban and State Anthropology, and Urban Planning. With emphasis on the themes: city and culture; discourses, languages, and narratives; city, politics, and democracy; crises in democracies, authoritarianism, and fascism; far-right in the 20th and 21st centuries; as well as States, great urban projects and interventions.