Jonathan Xavier Inda
Professor and Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois Chicago
Border Criminologies
Biography
Jonathan Xavier Inda is Professor and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and an A.B. in Public Policy from Stanford University. He has written about anthropology and globalization, Foucauldian social theory, the geneticization of race, and the government of immigration. His books include Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics (2006), Governing Immigration Through Crime (2013), and Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life (2014).