Ernesto Castañeda

Ernesto Castañeda is the Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and the Immigration Lab, and a Full Professor at American University in Washington, DC. He conducts research on contentious politics, immigration, borders, Latin people, health disparities, and homelessness. He is the author of Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misconceptions (Columbia University Press 2024); A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Belonging and Exclusion in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (Stanford University Press 2018); Building Walls: The Exclusion of Latin People in the U.S. (Lexington Books 2019), and with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of Social Movements 1768–2018 (Routledge 2020). He is the editor of Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity (Routledge 2018); and co-editor of Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader (Routledge 2017). He has written for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Hill, CityLab, The Conversation, Medium, and NPR, among other outlets. He is a frequent analyst of current events in U.S. and international news programs.

Robert Albro

Robert Albro is Associate Director of Research at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS). He received his PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. His ethnography Roosters at Midnight: Indigenous Signs and Stigma in Local Bolivian Politics (School of Advanced Research Press, 2010) explores urban indigeneity in Bolivia. More recently his research and writing have focused on international cultural policy and climate displacement. Dr. Albro has edited two volumes on the socio-cultural impacts of climate change. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Mellon, Rockefeller, and Luce foundations, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. He has also been a Fulbright scholar and has held fellowships at the Carnegie Council, the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.