Gilberto Rosas

Gilberto Rosas is a writer and professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Latina/o Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he chairs the latter. With interests in “the state,” racism and its broad complexities, critical ethnography, and experimental writing, Rosas is author of the award-winning Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier (Duke University Press, 2012), the recently published Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), and other well received work. He is also a co-editor of The Border Reader (Duke University Press, 2023). Professor Rosas is a native of El Paso, Texas and currently working on a novel based on his ethnographic work as well as other new projects.