The Border Studies Initiative will focus on promoting interdisciplinary, comparative research on the making, unmaking, crossing, and fortification of borders – national, colonial, regional, and continental. Our central thematics are organized as follows, broken down by year: 1) Human rights, citizenship, and racialized belonging (Year 1, 2015-2016); 2) Mobility, militarization, and containment (Year 2, 2016-2017); 3) Protest cultures and transnational solidarities (Year 3, 2017-2018). Please see our Mission Statement to learn more about our guiding research questions and objectives.

Border Studies
Website: borderstudies.ucdavis.edu
Email: ucdborderstudies@gmail.com
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Core Faculty
Professor Sunaina Maira, co-Principal Investigator
Professor Robert McKee Irwin, co-Principal Investigator
Cristina Jo Pérez
Maurice-Stierl
Natalia Deeb-Sossa
Cristiana Giordano
Hsuan L. Hsu
Desirée A. Martín
Flagg Miller 
Susette Min
Jessica Bissett Perea (Dena’ina)

Affiliated Faculty
Javier Arbona
Donald Donham
Luis Eduardo Guarnizo
Wendy Ho
Rana M. Jaleel
Jeffrey Kahn
Caren Kaplan
Susan Miller
Fiamma Montezemolo
Andres Resendez
Robyn Rodriguez
Clarissa Rojas
Kriss Ravetto
Russell P. Skelchy
Elisa Joy White
Susy Zepeda
Justin Leroy
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Chunjie Zhang
David Kyle
Barbara Lüthi

Postdoctoral Scholars
Maryam Griffin
 

Visiting Scholars
Jana Haberlein
Caterina Giusa

Affiliated Graduate Students
Robert Echeverria
Omar Abdullah
Danae Valenzuela
Maureen Burdock
Tory Brykalski
Nina Cole
Nina Farnia
Viridiana Hernandez
Rajbir Judge
Adam Kersch​​​​​​​
Caroline McKusick
Andrea Miller
Loren Michael Mortimer
Anny Proctor
David Tenorio
Scott Tsuchitani
Carmen Valdivia
David Barrera
Sarah Ashford Hart​​​​​​​
Colton Brandau​​​​​​​
M. Fatih Tatari
Alejandro Rossi
Anne Gillman​​​​​​​
Farah Khan​​​​​​​
Gabi Kirk​​​​​​​
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana​​​​​​​
Lisa Gonzalves​​​​​​​
Emily E. Frankel​​​​​​​
Luis Chávez​​​​​​​
Marinka Swift​​​​​​​