Contributors

Aliya Amarshi holds a PhD in sociology from York University, where she studied the relationship between progressive social movements and political emotions. Her postdoctoral research has focused on the barriers faced by new immigrants in the Canadian labour market as well as the impacts of social oppression on the mental health of racialized Canadians. She is currently a practicing Gestalt psychotherapist involved in efforts to make explicit the link between social trauma and mental health.

Lori Barkley is a settler, political anthropologist, educator, and activist living in the heart of unceded Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ in what is called British Columbia, Canada. After teaching in the BC postsecondary sector for over twenty-five years, Barkley left academic teaching to work on Sinixt resurgence, working with NGOs, settler governments, museums, environmental organizations and anyone who will listen. She is co-author of several academic publications and has given many public talks on Sinixt in Canada.

Claudia Donoso received her PhD in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia. The title of her dissertation was “Feminist Critical Human Security: Women’s (In) Security and Smuggling on Ecuador’s Borders.” This research was carried out with a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. She is chair and associate professor in the Department of International Studies and Global Affairs at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Her research interests involve critical security studies, intersectional feminism, border studies, human security in communities in the Global South, and Latin American politics and security. Her most recent work has appeared in the Journal of Borderlands Studies and the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies.

Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen is a lecturer in the MacMillan Center for International Studies at Yale University. She is a feminist geographer whose work focuses on the relationship among borders, race, and political economy between Africa and Europe. Gross-Wyrtzen received her PhD in geography from Clark University in 2019. Her first book project, Bordering Blackness: Race and the Political Economy of Migration, draws on ethnographic research among West and Central African migrants moving through or contained within Morocco and was funded by the National Science Foundation and Fulbright-Hays. She has also published peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of North African Studies, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Geoforum, and ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.

Ryan Hall is an associate professor of Native American studies and history at Colgate University. He is the author of Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877 (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) as well as articles in the Journal of the Civil War Era, the Western Historical Quarterly, the Pacific Historical Review, the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and Agricultural History. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2015 and lives in Hamilton, New York.

Marilyn James (MEd Simon Fraser University) is a Smum iem matriarch appointed by Sinixt elders to uphold Sinixt protocols and laws in Sinixt tmxʷúlaʔxʷ (homeland) under the laws of whuplak’n and Smum iem. Her work includes the repatriation of sixty-four ancestral remains from museums and collections back to their rightful places in Nḱʕáwxtən (Vallican, BC). Appointed spokesperson for the Sinixt Nation in Canada (1990–2013), her work as Smum iem matriarch and Sinixt knowledge-keeper is ongoing. James is an accomplished storyteller of traditional and contemporary Sinixt stories and works extensively in the field of curriculum development. Co-author of Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way (Maa Press, 2021), she is an ardent advocate for her ancestors, the land, and the water of Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ.

Evan Light is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. He actively runs the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and British Academy–funded Deobfuscating State Surveillance in Canada project, which aims to document the surveillance capabilities of the Canadian state from municipal to federal. Light also maintains an archive of the Edward Snowden files and an off-line Snowden Archive-in-a-Box, which has travelled the globe as an art installation.

Paul McKenzie-Jones is a settler associate professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Lethbridge and an external research affiliate with the Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Center of the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is committed to working in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples across the globe through research, teaching, and advocacy. He is the author of Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power (OU Press, 2015). His current research projects focus on Indigenous intellectual, political, and cultural resistance to, and at, the Canada-US border since 1924 and global transnational Indigenous environmental, cultural, and political resistance since the 1960s.

Sheila McManus is a professor of history and one-third of the Lethbridge Border Studies Group. They are the author of The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands, co-published by the University of Nebraska Press and University of Alberta Press in 2005; Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. West, published by Harlan Davidson (now Wiley) in 2010; and Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West (Texas A&M, 2022). They also co-edited One Step over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests, co-published by Athabasca University Press and the University of Alberta Press in 2008.

Anne McNevin is an associate professor of politics at The New School. She is the author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political and numerous journal articles on the transformation of citizenship, sovereignty, migration, and mobility. Her recent publications examine aspects of time and temporality in relation to borders. She is working on a new book, Worldmaking and Border Politics, that aims to bring a world beyond bordered states into the realm of serious political consideration.

Michael P. A. Murphy is the Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Democracy at Queen’s University and a former Digital Policy Hub Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is the author of Quantum Social Theory for Critical International Relations Theorists (2021), Weak Utopianism in Education (2024), over forty peer-reviewed articles, and numerous book reviews and chapters, receiving over 2000 citations.

Sarah Naumes is a PhD candidate (ABD) in the Department of Politics at York University. Her doctoral research on US Army veteran resilience led to a multiyear lawsuit in federal court, which resulted in the distribution of previously undisclosed government documents (see Naumes v. Dep’t of the Army). She is employed at Columbia University, where she works with principal investigators to strategically secure large-scale extramural funding.

Heather Parrish is an assistant professor and program head of printmaking in the School of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Iowa. She is a multidisciplinary artist with an ongoing interest in the mutually creative relationship between inhabitant and environment and the dynamic relationalities enacted across boundaries. Recent solo exhibitions include Seeing Out the Other Eye—a View through Waller Creek at Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Austin, Texas; Precipitate, with the Scope collective at Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; Homing at the Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana; and numerous other exhibitions. Collaboration is integral to her practice, including ongoing projects Border Work with political geographer Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen and Scope with biologist Elizabeth Hénaff and acoustic engineer Léonard Roussel.

Ramón Resendiz is a Chicanx documentary filmmaker and media anthropologist from the south Texas US-Mexico borderlands. Resendiz is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University Bloomington who will be taking a position in the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon. He holds a PhD in media, culture, and communication from New York University and a master of communication from the Native Voices Documentary Media Program at University of Washington. His research interrogates the material and imaginary intersections of national borders, memory, visual culture, systemic violence, and settler colonialism. His book project, Archival Resistance: Countervisual Documentary Media on the Margins of the U.S., investigates the historic violence, erasures, and undocumentation of critical Latinx Indigeneities in the national constructions of Texas, Mexico, and the United States. He critically studies how settler-colonial nation-states are visualized by archival institutions across the south Texas/US and northern Mexico border landscapes and the ways visual documentary producers contest and render these erasures visible. His filmography includes an array of collaborative community-based documentaries regarding immigration, social justice, human rights issues, Indigenous resistance, and the evidentiary. Chief of these is El Muro | The Wall (2017), a feature-length documentary film project co-produced with the Lipan Apache Band of Texas Tribal Board. His films have been screened across film festivals, community screenings, and academic conferences.

Rosalva Resendiz holds a PhD in sociology/social (dis)organization theory from Texas Woman’s University. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, previously known as the University of Texas–Pan American. Resendiz identifies as Chicanx Indigenous mestiza, focusing on social justice, critical criminology, critical race theory, decoloniality, postcolonial studies, Chicana feminism, Mexican American / border studies, and organized crime. Most recently, she co-edited Criminology Throughout History: Critical Readings (2021) and Gender, Crime, and Justice: Critical and Feminist Perspectives (2021). She also has a co-authored book chapter in BIPOC Alliances: Building Communities and Curricula (2022): “Reclaiming Our Indigeneity: Deconstructing Settler Myths within Our Family.”

Lou Stone is an Autonomous Sngaykstskx (Sinixt) activist and former five-term Inchelium Representative of the Colville Business Council, governing body of the Colville Confederated Tribes in the United States. He resides within Sngaykstskx tmxʷúlaʔxʷ (territory) in Washington State. He is an undergraduate from Western Washington University and has a master’s of social work from Portland State University in community organizing and planning. Stone commits extensive time to advocate social justice and decolonizing principles that seek to restore justice for Sngaykstskx and other Indigenous peoples and education for ongoing settler-colonizer relations.

Chloe Wells studied at the University of Eastern Finland and completed her PhD in human geography at the end of 2020 with the publication of her thesis monograph Vyborg Is Y/ours: Meanings and Memories of a Borderland City Amongst Young People in Finland. Wells’s work crossed academic borders, combining concepts from the disciplines of human geography, border studies, and memory studies. Wells now works outside academia, but her fascination with borders, and with Finland, continues.

Julie Young is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Critical Border Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Much of her research to date has focused on how migrants and advocates in Canada-US and Mexico-Guatemala border communities interact with and challenge those borders. Young is co-editor, with Susan McGrath, of the open-access book Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement (University of Calgary Press, 2019).