A. Naomi Paik

A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (2020, University of California Press) and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (2016, UNC Press; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up, John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies, ASA, 2017), as well as articles, opinion pieces, and interviews in a range of academic and public-facing venues. She is co-chair of the Radical History Review editorial collective and has co-edited three special issues of the journal: “Militarism and Capitalism” (Winter 2019), “Radical Histories of Sanctuary” (Fall 2019) and “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” (Spring 2020), and will co-edit “Against the Anthropocene” with Ashley Dawson (Winter 2023). Paik is an associate professor of criminology, law, and justice and global Asian studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a member of the Migration Scholars Collaborative. Her research and teaching interests include comparative ethnic studies; U.S. imperialism; U.S. militarism; social and cultural approaches to legal studies; transnational and women of color feminisms; carceral spaces; abolition; and labor, race and migration.