Perla M. Guerrero is Associate Professor of American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies (USLT). Her research and teaching interests include relational race and ethnicity with a focus on Latinxs and Asian Americans, space and place, immigration and legality, labor, and U.S. history. She has received multiple awards, including a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and two Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution. She is the author of Nuevo South: Latina/os, Asians, and Remaking of Place, and is working a second book, Deportation’s Aftermath: Displacement and Making a Life in Exile, that explores the challenges deportees and returnees face in Mexico. She has received multiple teaching and mentoring awards including the Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award (2022), the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in a General Education Course (2020), and the Outstanding Faculty/Staff Member Award from The Upsilon Chapter of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. (2018).