Christina Leza Author & Editor

Jane H. Hill was Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as President of the American Anthropological Association, and was awarded the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology in 2005.

Christina Leza is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado College. She is a linguistic anthropologist and Yoeme-Chicana activist scholar whose scholarship focuses on Indigenous rights and lifeways, social justice movements, racial discourse, and the U.S.-Mexico border. She is the author of Divided Peoples: Policy, Activism and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Barbra A. Meek is a Comanche citizen and Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, where she is currently serving as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Her lab continues to research issues of language and Indigeneity in settler-colonized contexts, from everyday interactions to film and media.

Jacqueline H.E. Messing is Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Maryland-College Park whose publications center on multilingualism, identity, ideology, and Nahuatl language reclamation in Mexico. Her research additionally includes bilingualism in the U.S., the ethnohistorical analysis of language and race in colonial Mexico, and the circulation of European-American Holocaust narratives.