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“Crossing Mexico: Violence and the

Commodification of Central American Migrants”

Wednesday, March 16

4:30-5:30 pm

Falvey Library Rm. 204

Latin American Studies and GPLASC present

Dr. Wendy A. Vogt is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University – Purdue

University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her academic Interests include migration, vio-

lence, political Economy, transnational feminisms, borders & transit spaces, Mexico

and Latin America, among others. A Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Dr. Vogt

is author of several important published works, including: “Stuck in the Middle with

You: Intimate Labors of Mobility and Human Smuggling along Mexico’s Migrant

Route (Geopolitics, 2016); “The War on Drugs is a War on Migrants” (Landscape of

Violence, 2015); and “Crossing Mexico: Structural Violence and the Commodifica-

tion of Undocumented Central American Migrants (American Ethnologist, 2013).

Free and Open to the Public

Dr. Wendy A. Vogt Indiana University – Purdue University