Romain Dittgen is a human geographer by training. He is interested in questions of urban change, both through the lens of materiality and forms of living together, as well as in the interplay between city-making and migration in Southern Africa. He works as an assistant professor at Utrecht University in the department of human geography and spatial planning. He is also affiliated with the African Centre for Migration & Society (University of the Witwatersrand) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University).