Gilberto Rosas is chair of the department of Latina/Latino studies and a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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) and 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 the editor of The Border Reader along with Mireya Loza (Duke University Press, 2023). Professor Rosas is active Immigrant Rights movements both locally and nationally, and has given expert testimony on behalf of people in asylum and related legal proceedings, and has been active in an innovative scholarship collaboration, addressing health inequities.