Mario Schmidt is a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) and a senior research specialist at Busara, Nairobi. His geographical focus is on rural Western Kenya and Nairobi. Apart from exploring notions of masculinity among rural-urban migrants, he is interested in the effects of evidence-based development aid interventions across East Africa and the epistemological and ethical foundations of the behavioral sciences