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name: Ieva Jusionyte
about: Ieva Jusionyte is a social anthropologist whose life and work has taken her back and forth across three continents: from her home country Lithuania, where she grew up and worked as a journalist, to the East Coast of the U.S., where she went to graduate school and now teaches, to the borderlands of North and South America, where she has been doing ethnographic research. Her first book, "Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border," focuses on the role of the media in making some crimes more visible than others. Her second book, "Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border," follows firefighters and paramedics as they cross the border to save lives, providing an examination of the politics of injury and rescu Ieva Jusionyte is a social anthropologist whose life and work has taken her back and forth across three continents: from her home country Lithuania, where she grew up and worked as a journalist, to the East Coast of the U.S., where she went to graduate school and now teaches, to the borderlands of North and South America, where she has been doing ethnographic research. Her first book, "Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border," focuses on the role of the media in making some crimes more visible than others. Her second book, "Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border," follows firefighters and paramedics as they cross the border to save lives, providing an examination of the politics of injury and rescue in the militarized region. She holds a faculty appointment as Watson Family Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University. ...more