<p>Lydia Huerta is an assistant professor of gender, race, and identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. Huerta specializes in 20th and 21st century cultural studies of the Americas, with an emphasis on the relationship between social media and narratives about the U.S./Mexico border. Her primary research examines the cultural production created in response to the women-killings in Ciudad Juárez since 1993. Other research interests focus on social movements, cultural narratives and public policies created in the United States and Mexico, which call attention to issues related to undocumented populations, specifically, women and LGBTQ migrants.</p> <h3>Research interests</h3> <ul> <li>Latinx/Chicanx and Latin American communication and cultural studies</li> <li>Social media and popular culture studies</li> <li>Narrative theory</li> <li>Critical communication pedagogy</li> <li>Feminist, gender and sexuality studies</li> <li>Group identity formation and social movements</li> <li>Cognitive and social neuroscience criticism</li> <li>Decolonial, Postcolonial, Globalization studies</li> </ul> <h3>Courses taught</h3> <ul> <li>WMST 250: Introduction to Feminist Theory</li> </ul> <h3>Selected publications</h3> <p><strong>Books</strong></p> <ul> <li>Huerta Moreno, L. (2026). Mourning and Mobilization: The Affective Politics of Women Killings in the Americas. SUNY University Press.</li> <li>Huerta Moreno, L., & Sanchez Volatier, C. (2022). Introduction to Latinx Social Sciences and Cultural Studies. Cognella Academic Publishing.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Journal articles</strong></p> <ul> <li><span>Huerta Moreno, L. (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2025.2487274" title="The Exigency of the Anti-Gender Agenda" class="extLink">The Exigency of the Anti-Gender Agenda in Latin America: A Transnational Perspective</a>. Communication Education, 74 (2), 182-195.</span></li> <li><span>Huerta Moreno, L, Blithe, S. J., & G. da Silva Balthazar. (2024). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13175" title="The Impacts of Anti-Genderism on Education" class="extLink">The Impacts of Anti-Genderism on Education in Brazil: Fear and Danger among Professors of Gender</a>. Gender, Work and Organization: 1-17.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Book chapters</strong></p> <ul> <li><span>Huerta Moreno, L. (2022). Alighting on the Digital: Trans Migrant Testimonios. In P. Pain (Ed.), LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective (77-88). Routledge.</span></li> <li><span>Huerta Moreno, L. (2022). The Silence of Laughter. In S.J. Blithe & J. Bauer (Eds.) Badass Feminist Politics: An Introduction (145-170). Rutgers University Press.</span></li> </ul>

<p>Boehm's research focuses on how immigration and the production of "illegality" intersect with gendered family relations; the experiences of children and youth in transnational perspective; and, most recently, immigration control, detention, and deportation in the 21st century. Several publications have come out of this work, including "Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans" (New York University Press, 2012) and "Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation" (University of California Press, 2016). Her research has been supported by an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Award, and residencies at the School for Advanced Research, the University of Arizona School of Anthropology, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Current projects include a study of spaces of invisibility and isolation in U.S. immigration detention regimes and a collaborative project (with Susan Terrio from Georgetown University) about undocumented migrant children and youth who are categorized as "unaccompanied" by the U.S. government.</p> <h3>Specializations</h3> <ul> <li>Cultural anthropology</li> <li>Immigration, deportation and detention</li> <li>Gender and women's studies</li> <li>Childhood and kinship</li> <li>Mexico, the United States and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands</li> </ul> <h3>Courses taught</h3> <p>Boehm teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Anthropology and the Gender, Race, and Identity Program, including cross-listed classes that explore topics such as gender across cultures, global movement and intersectionality.</p> <ul> <li>Gender Across Cultures</li> <li>Gender and Migration</li> <li>Introduction to Cultural Anthropology</li> <li>Introduction to Women's Studies</li> <li>Seminar in Cultural Anthropology</li> <li>Theories of Identity and Difference</li> <li>Theories of Oppression</li> </ul> <h3>Selected publications</h3> <p><strong>Books</strong></p> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. 2016. Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation. California Series in Public Anthropology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.</li> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. 2012. Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans. New York, NY: New York University Press.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Edited volumes</strong></p> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. and Susan J. Terrio, eds. 2019. Illegal Encounters: Detention and Deportation in the Lives of Young People. New York, NY: New York University Press.</li> <li>Coe, Cati, Rachel R. Reynolds, Deborah A. Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, and Heather Rae-Espinoza, eds. 2011. Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Journal articles and book chapters</strong></p> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. 2019. "Un/making Family: Relatedness, Migration, and Displacement in a Global Age." In The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship. Edited by Sandra Bamford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</li> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. 2017. "Separated Families: Barriers to Family Reunification After Deportation." Journal on Migration and Human Security 5(2): 401-416.</li> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. 2016. "The Destinations of Deportation." Practicing Anthropology 38(1):36-37.</li> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. 2015."'Now I am a Man and a Woman!' - Gendered Moves and Migrations in a Transnational Mexican Community." In The Gender, Culture and Power Reader. Edited by Dorothy L Hodgson. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</li> <li>Boehm, Deborah A. 2013. "'¿Quien Sabes?': Deportation and Temporality among Transnational Mexicans." In Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader. Edited by Julie A. Downing and Jonathan Xavier Inda. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>

<p>Born in exile in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1967, Xabier Irujo is the chair of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is a professor in Basque Studies and Gender, Race and Identity. He was the first guest research scholar of the Manuel Irujo Chair at the University of Liverpool, William Douglass visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise State University. He holds three master’s degrees in linguistics, history and philosophy and has two PhDs in history and philosophy. He has mentored numerous graduate students and has chaired or been a member of nearly twenty PhD dissertation committees. Dr. Irujo has lectured in more than thirty American and European universities and academic or cultural institutions (typically governments, parliaments, museums and libraries.) He has published on issues related to Basque history and politics and has specialized throughout his career in genocide studies with a focus on physical and cultural extermination. He serves on the scientific committees of six academic and university presses in Europe and the Americas. Dr. Irujo has authored more than fifteen books and a number of articles in specialized journals and has received awards and honors at national and international levels. His recent books include <em>Gernika 1937: The Market Day Massacre</em> (Nevada University Press, 2015), <em>Gernika: Genealogy of a Lie</em> (Sussex Academic Press, 2018), and <em>Charlemagne’s Defeat in the Pyrenees: The Battle of Rencesvals</em> (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2021).</p> <h2>Research interests</h2> <ul> <li>Genocide</li> <li>Terror bombing</li> <li>Exile</li> </ul> <h2>Courses taught</h2> <ul> <li>Genocide studies</li> <li>Transnational Identity</li> </ul> <h2>Selected books</h2> <ul> <li>Irujo, Xabier, <a href="https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/4970" target="_blank" title="Expelled from the Motherland" class="extLink" rel="noopener">Expelled from the Motherland: The Government of President Jose Antonio Agirre in Exile (1937 - 1960)</a>, Center for Basque Studies - University of Nevada, Reno, 2012. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-1-935709-06-0. </li> <li>Irujo, Xabier; Solé, Queralt (Eds.), <a href="https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7744" target="_blank" title="Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalunya" class="extLink" rel="noopener">Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalunya</a>, Center for Basque Studies Press, University of Nevada, Reno 2018. 512 pp. ISBN: 978-1-949805-05-5. </li> <li>Irujo, Xabier, <a href="https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7748" target="_blank" title="The Bombing of Gernika" class="extLink" rel="noopener">The Bombing of Gernika</a>, Center for Basque Studies Press - University of Nevada, Reno, 2018. 163 pp. ISBN: 978-1-935709-91-6. </li> <li>Irujo, Xabier; Olaziregi, Marijo (Eds.), <a href="https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7743" target="_blank" title="The International Legacy of Lehendakari Jose " class="extLink" rel="noopener"><em>The International Legacy of Lehendakari Jose A. Agirre's Government</em></a>, Center for Basque Studies Press, University of Nevada, Reno 2017. 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1935709817. </li> <li>Irujo, Xabier; Romtvedt, David (Eds.), <a href="https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7980" target="_blank" title="The Tree of Gernika" class="extLink" rel="noopener">The Tree of Gernika. Gernikako arbola: Complete Poems by Joxe Mari Iparragirre</a>, Center for Basque Studies Press, 2020. 182 p. ISBN: 978-1-949805-23-9. </li> </ul> <h2>Recent awards and honors</h2> <ul> <li>2023. Distinguished as a member of the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country of 1765. August 2023.</li> <li>2022. Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise State University.</li> <li>2021. William Douglass visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.</li> <li>2018. Gernika Prize for Peace and Reconciliation by the Gernika city council.</li> <li>2017. Gernika Plaque by the Euskal Erria Basque Society in Uruguay.</li> <li>2015. Chair Fellow at the University of Liverpool.</li> <li>2013. Jesus Maria Leizaola Saria mention for the manuscript <em>Historia Jurídica de la Lengua Vasca</em> (1789-2009) on cultural genocide in the Basque Country by the Basque Institute of Public Administration (HAEE-IVAP).</li> <li>2006. Andrés Irujo Saria award for the manuscript <em>La Sociedad de Confraternidad Vasca Euskal Erria de Montevideo</em> by the Basque Government.</li> </ul>