Christina Heatherton is the inaugural Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship and Associate Professor of American Studies. For the 2026-2027 academic year, she will be a Visiting Faculty Fellow in American Studies at Yale University.

Heatherton researches movements for social change. She is the author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 2022), named one of the best books of 2022 by The Progressive (Madison, WI) and one of the best scholarly books of 2023 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The book, now in paperback, will be translated into Spanish and republished by La Cigarra Press (Mexico) in Fall 2026. She is currently at work on a new project entitled Shadows Without Bodies, an adaptation of her 2024 keynote address for the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Politics of Solidarity Lecture at the London School of Economics. 

She is part of a team currently editing a special issue of the geography journal Antipode. Her work is also forthcoming in Un País en el Mundo: México y el Siglo XX, (ed.) Daniel Kent Carrasco; Labor: Studies in Working Class History; and the Journal of Development Studies. It appears in other scholarly volumes such as Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance (eds.) Waqas Tufail et. al, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); The Cambridge History of America in the World, (eds.) Kristin Lee Hoganson and Jay Sexton (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022); Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion and Change, (ed.) Leela Fernandes (NYU Press, 2018); Futures of Black Radicalism, (eds.) Gaye Johnson and Alex Lubin (Verso, 2017); and The Rising Tides of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific, (ed.) Moon-Ho Jung (Univ. of Washington Press, 2014); as well as in journals such as American Quarterly, Society and Space, Humanity, Latin American Studies Forum, Women's Studies Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, City, Social Justice, Interface, as well as in popular venues. 

She has collaborated with social movements on several volumes. With Jordan T. Camp, she edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016), selected for New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s “Reading List for America” (2016) and “Black Liberation Reading List” (2020). She previously edited Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader (Freedom Now Books, 2011) and co-edited with Camp Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond (Freedom Now Books, 2012). 

Heatherton is the founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute. Previously she founded and co-directed several public facing initiatives, including: New Directions in American Studies at Barnard College; the Oral History and Activism Project; and the Working Group on Racial Capitalism, a project of the Center for Study of Social Difference (CSSD), Columbia University. In these capacities she has facilitated manuscript workshops, public lectures, research clusters, and collaborative research grounded in social transformation. She co-hosts and co-produces the public humanities web series/ podcast  Conjuncture.With Jordan T. Camp, she is currently developing an edited volume entitled Conjuncture.