Ieva Jusionyte is a legal anthropologist and associate professor at Brown University. She is the author of Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border (2024) and Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (2018). A recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Award, and a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, she has been studying borders, violence, and security in Latin America and the United States for over fifteen years. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone. She lives in Boston.

2024 Festival Session