- Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University
- M.A., American Studies, Yale University
- B.A., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Aleshia Barajas
Assistant Professor
CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar
- alebara@iu.edu
- BH 577
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Education
Research interests
- US-Mexico Border Studies
- Latinx Studies
- Experimental Ethnographic Writing
- Affect and Materiality
About Aleshia Barajas
Aleshia Barajas is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at Indiana University. She received her PhD from Yale University and is currently working on a book manuscript introducing an other-than-linear conceptual framework that challenges our current binary—here or there—understanding of the US-Mexico border and quotidian border-crossings. This work is based on three years of ethnographic field research at four ports of entry in Baja California/California and Sonora/Arizona, as well as her own personal experience crossing the border every day to attend school in the US. Her research has been generously supported by the Ford Foundation.
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