Kristina Shull received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Irvine Department of History and currently serves as a lecturer. She has dedicated her scholarship to immigration detention, prison privatization, and anti-immigrant movements. Shull is the co-editor of an anthology of poetry and art by people held in immigration detention centers called Call Me Libertad: Poems Between Borders and has been a researcher for the Detention Watch Network and a graduate fellow at the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection.