Her book project, Borderland Fixations: Technologies of Sight and the Production of the Nineteenth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, explores how the interplay between visual and scientific technologies, spatial and social landscapes, and the regulation of bodies produced the American Southwest borderlands. She is the past recipient of two Ford Foundation Fellowships. To be a productive writer, Celeste reads fiction at night, writes first thing in the morning, and hikes/gardens on the weekends.