Camilla A. Hawthorne

Camilla A. Hawthorne is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a critical human geographer who studies the racial politics of migration and insurgent abolition geographies. She is the author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) and co‑editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Duke University Press, 2023), and Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Works of Katherine McKittrick (University of Minnesota Press, 2026).