Ana Ćuković

Ana Ćuković is a Council of Michigan Foundations Philanthropy Fellow at the Hudson-Webber Foundation in Detroit focusing on regional and state-wide housing initiatives, displacement and dispossession across neighborhoods at the forefront of large-scale urban investment, and other philanthropic strategic initiatives. Her current work is informed by extensive professional and community experience in the arts, urban development, migration, and policy in Detroit.
Ana received her PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Central European University. Her dissertation, Building Cities like Automobiles: Labor, State, Capital and Politics of Migration in Detroit, deploys the historical perspective and theoretical framings of uneven and combined development, migrant emplacement, and uneven urban development to analyze how internal and international migration becomes inscribed into processes of urban change. Focusing on Detroit as a site central to the making and unmaking of the U.S. capitalist system, her work shows how migration becomes embedded in the legal architecture and national political struggles as cities move across different regimes of capital accumulation. In addition, Ana focuses on the relationship between urban growth elites and structural power in contemporary Detroit.
As a Fellow at the University of Vienna, Ana was the coordinator for the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration where she organized the Seminar Series on Forced Migration and managed the Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas edited volume. She held an Open Society Global Teaching Fellowship at Al-Quds Bard College in Palestine.