Gilberto Rosas
· ProfessorVerifiedUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Anthropology
Active 2006–2025
About
Gilberto Rosas is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He holds additional affiliations as Chair of Latina/Latino Studies, Professor of Latina/Latino Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is also an affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. His research focuses on issues related to borders, immigration, and racial capitalism, with notable contributions including his publications on the US-Mexico border, white nationalism, and the criminalization of states. Rosas has authored and edited several books, such as 'Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier' and 'Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border.' His work is recognized for its critical analysis of border politics, asylum, and the social dynamics surrounding immigration and racialization.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Medicine
- Criminology
- Geography
- Law
- Virology
- Social psychology
- Socioeconomics
- Economics
- Gender studies
- Demographic economics
- Anthropology
- Psychology
- Environmental health
- Political economy
Selected publications
Berghahn Books · 2025-11-07
book-chapterSenior authorCHAPTER 8 “We Don’t Have That Freedom”
Berghahn Books · 2025-12-11
book-chapterSenior authorReal-World Effectiveness and Safety of Baricitinib in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis
Clinical Drug Investigation · 2023-12-19 · 4 citations
letter2023-09-18
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding3. Necro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live
2023-10-13 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingJohns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2023-01-01 · 5 citations
book1st authorCorresponding2023-09-18
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingNecro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live
2023-09-01 · 2 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingGilberto Rosas draws on the experiences of those who lack the privilege of citizenship in this anti-immigrant age, as they make themselves dead in order to live and rely on experts in asylum and related immigration proceedings to cast their homelands as hopeless, full of despair, and dominated by monstrous and imminently racialized and gendered oppression and violence.
Introduction: On Theories from the Ends
2023-10-13
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingIntroduction: On Theories from the Ends
2023-09-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAs with all borders, the international boundary between the United States and Mexico troubles distinctions between strangers and enemies, between the criminal and the law-abiding, between immigrant and citizen. The US-Mexico border specifically, and borders generally, have grown in importance as border controls and undocumented border crossings have intensified across the globe. The Border Reader curates some of the foundational scholarship on the region, its daily life, and its tensions. From linguistic studies of the criminal argot of smugglers, to insistences on the region’s normalcy, to smug confirmations of US superiority, to romanticized folklores of resistance in corridos and related forms, to studies on health and immigration policy, questions about who, what, and which language—English, Spanish, Yoeme, or even Q’anjob’al—represent the border remain pertinent. The Border Reader offers a vibrant alternative canon for scholars and students in a range of fields including anthropology, history, English, Spanish, postcolonial, and ethnic studies.
Frequent coauthors
- 144 shared
Irenee R. Beattie
University of California, Merced
- 144 shared
Joane Nagel
California State University, Channel Islands
- 144 shared
Megan Thiele
San Jose State University
- 144 shared
Christina Lux
California State University, Long Beach
- 144 shared
Vilna Treitler
University of Oregon
- 144 shared
Helen Marrow
California State University, Channel Islands
- 144 shared
Zulema Valdez
University of California, Merced
- 144 shared
David Torres-Rouff
California State University, Channel Islands
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