Camilla A. Hawthorne is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a critical human geographer who studies the racial politics of migration and insurgent abolition geographies. She is the author of Contesting Race and Citizenship : Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) and co‑editor of The Black Mediterranean : Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), The Black Geographic : Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Duke University Press, 2023), and Heartbreak and Other Geographies : Collected Works of Katherine McKittrick (University of Minnesota Press, 2026).