She received an M.Sc. in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and will defend her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology, from the University of Toronto, in September 2017. Her doctoral research is based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted inside and around prisons in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Hollis’ dissertation, Imprisonment and (Un)Relatedness in Northeast Brazil, focuses on interconnections between a penal compound and the low-income, heavily penalized neighborhoods surrounding it. This ethnography of a particular prison-neighborhood nexus is the foundation for broader inquiries into the subjective, relational, and political effects of socially concentrated penalization. Hollis’ research and teaching interests include critical carceral studies, ethnography, gender, kinship, violence, and Latin America.