Professor of Legal Studies
109 Gordon Hall / 413.545.5877
nsiulc [at] legal dot umass dot edu.
Nina is a cultural anthropologist with training in ethnographic filmmaking. Before joining the faculty, she worked in a number of applied research and policy settings. Her past and current work has focused on migration, crime, governance, and interstitial spaces such as borderlands and detention centers in the urban United States, the U.S./ Mexican border region, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Several of her projects have explored contemporary racializations of crime and criminalization of racialized immigrants in relation to narratives of national identity and security, as well as the points of intersection and conflict between legal processes, global legal and human rights discourses, and individual experiences.
She is affiliated with The Center for Research on Families (CRF) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which actively supports and disseminates social and behavioral sciences research on issues relevant to families. She is also affiliated with the Vera Institute of Justice, whcih combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.
She received her B.A. from Bard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University.
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