Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Chair, Latina/Latino Studies
Professor, Latina/Latino Studies
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Highlighted Publications
Rosas, G. (2012). Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391838
Recent Publications
Branigan, C., Brinkworth, J. F., Maldonado, K., Moodie, E., & Rosas, G. (2025). “We Don’t Have That Freedom”: Labor, Stress, and the Racial Capitalism of Agriculture at the Advent of COVID- 19. In A Revelatory Pandemic: Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America (pp. 187-211). Berghahn Books.
Rosas, G. (2023). Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.56021/9781421446172
Rosas, G. (2021). Grief and Border-Crossing Rage. Anthropology and Humanism, 46(1), 114-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12328
Brinkworth, J., Maldonado, K., Moodie, E., & Rosas, G. (2020). Visceral non-presence: Ethnography in the age of COVID. Journal of Legal Anthropology, 4(1), 92-100. https://doi.org/10.3167/jla.2020.040107
Rosas, G. (2019). Necro-subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live. Theory and Event , 22(2), 303-324. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/722826