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M. Bianet Castellanos is an anthropologist and a core faculty member in American Studies. Her research interests focus on indigenous communities in the Americas and their relationship to the modern nation-state and global capitalism. Her first book, A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), examines the foundational role indigenous people play in the development of tourism and transnational spaces in modern Mexico. She recently completed a co-edited (with Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera and Arturo Aldama) collection of essays, entitled Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach, that examines indigenous experiences across the Américas (University of Arizona Press 2012). In addition, she is working on a new project that examines indigenous lives across national boundaries, between Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and Los Angeles, California. This project explores the way gender, class, and racial ideologies intersect to shape how "indigeneity" and "community" are imagined within immigrant communities and migration studies. Castellanos teaches courses on politics and popular culture, immigration, global cities, the U.S.-Mexico border, and transnationalism. In her freshman seminar, her class created a wiki page about life on the U.S.-Mexico border. To access this page, see https://wiki.umn.edu/view/USMXborder