Joseph Nevins
Ext: 7823
Email: jonevins@vassar.edu
Joseph Nevins received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He studies matters of human rights, international law and social justice in the aftermath of mass atrocities, territorial and social boundaries, and imperialism and other forms of political violence. In doing so, he has conducted research in East Timor, Mexico, and the United States-Mexico border region. His courses include: Imperialism and Terrorism; Geographies of Mass Violence; and the United States-Mexico Border: Region, Place, and Process. He is the author of Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the “Illegal Alien” and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2002), and A Not-so-distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor (Cornell University Press, 2005). He is currently working on book on migrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.