She has a Ph.D. from the American Studies Department at the University of Minnesota and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona. Her book, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas, was published by New York University Press (2013). Through an ethnographic account of the Internet Marriage industry between women from Guadalajara, Mexico and Cali, Colombia, this project explores the relationship between global economic shifts, the governance of citizenship, and intimate circuits of desire, love, and marriage. Her new research interests examine visual and surveillance technologies and the sexual criminalizing of immigrant bodies across the U.S. – Mexico border. (September 2013 – May 2016)