Brenda Garcia

Faculty
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Degrees:

  • Degree: 2024 PhD Sociocultural Anthropology and minor in Latina/o Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 2012 B.A. (Honors) in Anthropology with distinction and minor in Spanish, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.

Teaching

  • Law and Gender (University of Massachusetts Amherst Fall 2024)
  • Law, Crime and Society (University of Massachusetts Amherst Fall 2024)
  • Interdisciplinary Legal Studies (University of Massachusetts Amherst Fall 2024)
  • Anthropology of Science and Technology (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
  • Latinx Ethnography (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Spring 2024)

Select Publications

  • Garcia, Brenda Gisela. "The art of war and the militarization of mestizaje." Journal for the Anthropology of North America 26, no. 1-2 (2023): 54-56.
  • Garcia, Brenda Gisela. “The Emergence of Necrosecurity: On the Extra-Legality of the Rule of Law and the Death of the Willful Subject.” in Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death edited by Ariadna Estevez (London, Palgrave McMillan, 2021) Pp. 153-173.

Research Areas

Legal Studies