Dr. Amanda Pinheiro (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar of the intersection of transnational migration, race & ethnicity, and policy, with vast experience in teaching and mentorship. Her ethnographic research examines the human cost of migration deterrence policies and practices across the Americas, foregrounding race and ethnicity in migration and border studies as well as in policymaking. She teaches global migration, forced and climate displacement, race and ethnicity in the context of international migration, migration across the Americas, Latin American and Latinx studies, critical refugee studies, critical border studies, community-based research, and ethnographic research. Prior to joining the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Walsh School of Foreign Services, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. Dr. Pinheiro holds a Ph.D. in Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), an M.A. in Latin American and Latinx Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and advanced training on Forced Migration (University of Oxford), Forced and Climate Migration (UC Berkeley), and Racial Justice in Border Studies (Cornell University).