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. 

• “The ‘American Century’ in Mexico,” América First: The Americas and the New Monroe Doctrine? Conference, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 10, 2026.
• “Shadows Without Bodies,” Department of Geography, Department of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK, March 2026.
• “Reading the Conjuncture,” Department of Geography, King’s College London, London, UK, March 2026.
• “New Guidelines for Grieving,” Gallatin Human Rights Speakers Series on Law, Authoritarianism and Dissent: Policing and Counterinsurgency, New York University, NY, NY, October 2025.
• “Roads, Tanks, and Teaspoons: Global Security Regimes and US Classrooms,” Presidential Panel, American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA, November 14, 2024.
• “Shadows Without Bodies: War, Revolutionary Nostalgia, and the Challenges of Internationalism,” Keynote address, 10th Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Politics of Solidarity Lecture, Centre for Human Rights, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, London, England, May 2024. 
• “‘Administered, managed and subsidized’: Cedric J. Robinson and the Organization of Generational Knowledge,” Archives Unbound: 50 Years of Hope, Resistance and Rebellion, Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archive Project organizing committee, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, June 2024. 
• “Knife Strikes Bone: Policing at the Limits of Empire,” Keynote lecture, Racialized Policing: New Paradigms, Alternative Futures conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, April 2024.
• “The Radical Art of Listening: Paul Ortiz, Oral History, and Movement Scholarship,” Robert L. Hess Scholar Program, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, April 1, 2024.
• “W.E.B. Du Bois & Reading the Conjuncture,” Dialogue with Jordan T. Camp, Africana Studies Colloquium, African American Studies Dept., Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT, February 2024. 
• “Violent Spectacles, Political Blindness, and Haunted Conjunctures: The 18th Brumaire in Mexico,” Antonio Gramsci & the Current Conjuncture, Dept. of Geography, UC Berkeley, December 2023. 
•  “The Spatial Pivot of 1848: Rethinking International Currents from Mexico,” Border Speakers Series, Chicanx Studies, UC Davis, April 18, 2023.
• “Capitalism, Racism, and the Challenges of Internationalism,” Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia University, New York, NY, March 29, 2023. 
• “Revolution’s Global Networks,” Department of Global Studies and Global Latinidades Project, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, February 27, 2023.
• “Internationalist Legacies of the Mexican Revolution: A Conversation with Jason Ferreira,” Medicine for Nightmares, co-sponsored by Labor & Community Studies and Latin American & Latino/a/x Studies, City College of San Francisco; Race & Resistance Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, February 22, 2023.
• “Making Internationalism,” History of Consciousness and Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, February 21, 2023. 
• “Interpreting the Conjuncture,” Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, February 16, 2023. 
• “Revolutionary Mexico and the Politics of Radical Knowledge Production,” Department of Labor Studies, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department, Center for Mexican Studies, Latin American Institute, and Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, February 14, 2023.
• “Radical Labor and Entangled Histories,” American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO, New Britain, CT, January 26, 2023.
• “The Gathering Storms: Meeting the Moment,” Dismantling Racial Capitalism, plenary, New York University Law School, New York, NY, December 1, 2022.
• “Social Spaces of Revolution,” Radical Utopian Communities, School of History, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany (via Zoom), November 23, 2022.
• “Elizabeth Catlett, the Taller de Grafíca Popular, and Revolutionary Art and Pedagogy,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, November 9, 2022.
• “Research from Below,” Highlander Homecoming, celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Highlander Research and Action Center, New Market, TN (Zoom), October 1, 2022.
• “Making Internationalism,” Society of Fellows and Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 5, 2021.  
• “Grounded Ways of Knowing: Spatial Politics, Policing, and the Pedagogies of Place” Masterclass, School of International Relations, International Security Studies Programme, University of St Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, November 6, 2020. 
  

• Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 2022).*Spanish translation to be published by La Cigarra Press (Mexico City, Mexico, 2026). Lora Romero First Book Prize Honorable Mention 2023, American Studies Association. Named one of the best books of 2022 by The Progressive Magazine (Madison, WI) and one of the best scholarly books of 2023 by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter, co-edited with Jordan T. Camp   (New York: Verso Books, 2016). Selected for NYPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s “Reading List for America” (2016) and “Black Liberation Reading List” (2020).  
• “The Global Mexican Revolution: 13 Theses,” Un País en el Mundo: México y el Siglo XX, ed. and trans. by Daniel Kent Carrasco (México City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2026). 
• “Words, words, words,” Forum on What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani, Ethnic and Racial Studies 48:3 (Fall 2024).
• “Knife Strikes Bone: Exhaustion and the Limits to Capitalist Destruction,” forum on Judah Schept’s Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (New York: New York University Press, 2022), Society and Space (Spring 2024). 
• “How to Make Revolution,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, special issue State/Power, co-edited by Dayo Gore and Christina Hanhardt (Spring 2023). 
• “Riots in the Master’s Hall: Racism, Revanchism, and the Crisis of U.S. Hegemony,” with Jordan T. Camp, in Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance, eds. Waqas Tufail, Scott Poynting, and Monish Bhatia (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). 
• “Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition,” in Cambridge History of America in the World, eds. Kristin Lee Hoganson and Jay Sexton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
• “Freighted Love: Teaching, Learning, and Making a Home in the Maelstrom” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action Vol. 24 (Spring 2020).
• “The Broken Windows of Rosa Ramos: Neoliberal Policing Regimes of Imminent Violability,” in Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion and Change, edited by Leela Fernandes (New York: New York University Press, 2018).
•  “Relief and Revolution: Southern California Struggles Against Unemployment, 1930-1933,” in Rising Tides of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific, ed. Moon-Ho Jung (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014).
• “University of Radicalism: Ricardo Flores Magón and Leavenworth Penitentiary,” American Quarterly, Special Issue: Las Américas Quarterly 66:3 (Fall 2014).*Finalist, 2015 American Studies Association Constance M. Rourke Prize 

• Recipient, Antipode Foundation Grant, 2024-2025
• Finalist, American Studies Association, Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, 2023
• Recipient, Luce Foundation Grant, Office of the President, Trinity College, 2023-2024
• Recipient, Outstanding Advocate For Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award, Trinity College, 2024 + 2025
• Recipient, Center for the Study of Social Difference Grant, Columbia University, 2018-21  
• Recipient, Humanities War & Peace Initiative, Office of the President, Columbia University, 2019-20
• Recipient, Presidential Research Award, Office of the President, Barnard College, 2018-19
• Recipient, Inclusive Pedagogy Fund, Barnard College Office of the Provost, 2017-2020