Christina Heatherton

Christina Heatherton is an Associate Professor of American Studies and the inaugural Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship at Trinity College. She is the author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (UC Press, 2022), the Spanish translation of which will soon be published on La Cigarra Press in Mexico. She previously co-edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016) with Jordan T. Camp. Her work is forthcoming in venues such as Un País en el Mundo: México y el Siglo XX (México City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) edited by Daniel Kent Carrasco, the Journal of Development Studies, Labor, Humanity, and Antipode where she is currently co-editing a special issue on “New Directions in Gramscian Studies.” She is the founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute and co-host and co-producer of Conjuncture, a public humanities web series and podcast. With Camp she is currently co-editing a volume also called Conjuncture. At Yale she is researching a new project entitled Shadows Without Bodies, an adaptation of her 2024 address for the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Politics of Solidarity Lecture at the London School of Economics.