Camilla Fojas is Foundation Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research explores the material and immaterial infrastructures and mediated cultures of the Americas and the Pacific through the axes of empire, surveillance, and race with a focus on the U.S.-Mexico border. He new book Brutal Border: Infrastructures of Cruelty is forthcoming from NYU Press and she is at work on a new project on robots and the automation of security at US borders. She has published 6 monographs and 3 co-edited books. Her recent books include Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier (NYU Press, 2021), Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture (Illinois, 2017), and Islands of Empire: Pop Culture and U.S. Power (UT Press, 2014).