Ieva Jusionyte is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University. A legal anthropologist who studies borders, law, and violence, she is the author of three books, including multiple award-winning ethnography, Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (2018) and Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (2024), which won the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Fulbright Program and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, among others. In addition to academic journals, such as American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Jusionyte has written for The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and discussed her research broadly in the media, including on BBC, CNN, ABC, and NPR. She is the editor of the California Series in Public Anthropology.
