Ana Muñiz
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society
University of California, Irvine
Ana Muñiz is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines racial criminalization through institutional ethnographic methods, with particular attention to gang labeling, state violence, immigration surveillance, and citizenship status. She is the author of Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries and Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond.
After earning her Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA, Ana co-founded the REALsearch Center at the Youth Justice Coalition, a youth action research project with formerly incarcerated youth in South Los Angeles. She has also developed research justice models with undocumented youth and is a former Jacob K. Javits Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society Foundations.