Christina Heatherton (she/her) is Associate Professor of American Studies and the inaugural Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship. She is the founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute and the co-host and co-producer of the public humanities web series / podcast, Conjuncture. Heatherton researches movements for social change. She is the author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 2022), named one of the best books of 2022 by The Progressive Magazine (Madison, WI) and one of the best scholarly books of 2023 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The book, now in paperback, will be translated into Spanish and republished by La Cigarra Press (Mexico City, Mexico) in Winter 2025. Heatherton has collaborated with social movements on several volumes including Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016) which she co-edited with Jordan T. Camp. Her work is forthcoming in Un País en el Mundo: México y el Siglo XX, edited by Daniel Kent Carrasco, and appears in other scholarly volumes such as The Cambridge History of America in the World (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022); Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State (NYU Press, 2018); Futures of Black Radicalism (Verso, 2017); and The Rising Tides of Color( Univ. of Washington Press, 2014) along with scholarly journals. She is part of a team currently editing a special issue of the geography journal Antipode. With Jordan T. Camp, she is currently developing an edited volume entitled Conjuncture. She is currently at work on a new project entitled Shadows without Bodies, an adaptation of her 2024 Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Politics of Solidarity Annual Lecture at the London School of Economics.
