Christina Heatherton (she/her) is the inaugural Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights. She is the founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute, the Director of Graduate Studies in American Studies, and the co-host and co-producer of the public humanities web series/podcast, Conjuncture.

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 Magazine (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 City, Mexico) in Fall 2024. She is currently at work on a new project entitled Shadows without Bodies, an adaptation of her recent 2024 lecture at the London School of Economics. 

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). She is working on a project about the theories and methods for collaborative research and movement archives entitled "Grounded Ways of Knowing."  

Her work appears in scholarly volumes such as Violence, Crime and Media, edited by 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 Theresa 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); in journals such as American Quarterly, Society and Space, Women's Studies Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, City, Social Justice, Interface; and in popular venues.

She previously 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. As Acting Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute, she facilitates manuscript workshops, public lectures, research clusters, and collaborative research grounded in social justice. With Jordan T. Camp, she is currently compiling interviews and essays for an edited collection entitled Conjuncture.

• “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 23, 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 1, 2024. 
• “Arise! Global Radicalism and the Internationalism of Our Times,” Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University, Boston, MA, April 24, 2024.
• “Knife Strikes Bone: Policing at the Limits of Empire,” Keynote lecture, Racialized Policing: New Paradigms, Alternative Futures conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, April 19, 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 and Reading the Conjuncture,” Dialogue with Jordan T. Camp, Africana Studies Colloquium, African American Studies Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, February 7, 2024. 
• “Violent Spectacles, Political Blindness, and Haunted Conjunctures: The 18th Brumaire in Mexico,” Antonio Gramsci and the Current Conjuncture, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley, December 2, 2023. 
• “Radical Convergences and the Mexican Revolution,” Department of History, California State University, East Bay, November 30, 2023. 
• “Arise! Global Radicalism and the Mexican Revolution,” Department of History, Boston College, November 10, 2023.
•  “The Spatial Pivot of 1848: Rethinking International Currents from Mexico,” Border Speakers Series, Chicanx Studies, UC Davis, (via Zoom) 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.
• “Arise! and Global Visions of Ethnic Studies” Howard Zinn Book Fair Event, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA, February 23, 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. 
• “Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution,” Book talk, The Village Well, Culver City, CA, February 17, 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.
• “Arise! Transnational Radicalism,” a dialogue with Christy Thornton, Red Emma’s Bookstore, Baltimore, MD, November 9, 2022.
• “Elizabeth Catlett, the Taller de Grafíca Popular, and Revolutionary Art and Pedagogy,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, November 9, 2022.
• “Arise! Book Talk,” Making Worlds Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA, October 22, 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.
• “Shadow Hegemony,” International Workshop on Racial Capitalism, Department of History, University of Houston, Houston, TX, May 11, 2022. 
• “Bounded Memories, Carceral Spaces: Internment and Memorialization in Los Angeles,” Japanese American Incarceration Day of Remembrance, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 2022.
• “Making Internationalism,” Society of Fellows and Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 5, 2021.  
• “How to Make a Rope,” Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 17, 2020.
  
• “Allowable Deaths and Daily Militarism: Poetic Responses to the Pedagogies of Fear,” Black Lives Matter and Asian Pacific Traditions of Decolonization, Nazrul Fund for Decolonial Art, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, November 18, 2020.  
• “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, 2024). Reviewed by London School of Economics Review of Books (2024), Hispanic American Historical Review (2023), The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (2023), El País (Madrid, Spain), QG Décolonial (Paris, France), Intervención y Coyuntura (Mexico City, Mexico), Public Books, Spectre, Jacobin, and other venues. 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). *Reviewed in multiple U.S. venues. 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).  
• “Words, words, words,” Forum on What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani (Verso, 2023) Ethnic and Racial Studies. (Forthcoming, 2024). 
• “Riots in the Master’s Hall: Racism, Revanchism, and the Crisis of U.S. Hegemony,” with Jordan T. Camp, in Racism, Violence, Crime and Media, eds. Waqas Tufail, Scott Poynting, and Monish Bhatia (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). 
• “Knife Strikes Bone: Exhaustion and the Limits to Capitalist Destruction,” forum on Judah Schept’s Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (NYU 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). 
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• 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
• 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