Luisa Schneider is an assistant professor in anthropology at Vrije Universiteit and a research partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in the Law & Anthropology Department. She holds a DPhil in Anthropology from Oxford University and is working on the anthropology of violence, intimacy, and law. Since 2018 she has been conducting research with rough sleepers on how they can live privacy and intimacy if these rights and protections are tacitly tied to housing.