Welcome! I am the Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. In my book project, Exporting Borders, I explain how the U.S. externalization regime and the Mexican containment regime are mutually constituted and how the bureaucracy drove the latest U.S. imperial intrusion into Mexico. In my Immigration Bureaucracy Lab, we are building an archive to reconstruct the formation and rise of the post-9/11 U.S. homeland security bureaucracy. Through the Latinx Organizational Archives (LXOA) Project, and in collaboration with the Latino Landscapes Project, our community-academia-practitioner research collective is mapping the Latino organizational landscape in action amid exclusionary and repressive environments across the United States.
>> Read: “Community-Based Leaders and Civically Engaged Research: Lessons from the Remaking of the Latinx Organizational Archives Project” in Politics, Groups, and Identities.
>> Read: “The Power-Enhancing and Power-Diminishing Effects of Digital Technologies: Marginalized People and US Racial Authoritarianism” in the Annual Review of Political Science.
>> Read: “Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State” in International Migration Review.
I come from a family of women from San Luis Potosí. With guidance and support from educators and members of the Lockhart, Texas, community, and through fundraising, I was able to attend Rice University as a first-generation college student. I graduated from Lockhart High School in 2009, earned my BA from Rice University in 2013, earned my PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2020, and served as an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University from 2021 to 2024.
Angie M. Bautista-Chavez 