Katharyne Mitchell

Katharyne Mitchell obtained her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and her BA from Princeton University. She is currently the Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Mitchell’s research explores different aspects of migration, including how faith-based, health, and other non-governmental organizations respond to asylum seekers whose claims for refugee status are denied. Recent books include Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education, and the forthcoming Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration co-edited with Reece Jones and Jennifer Fluri. She is the recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and National Science Foundation and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.