Her scholarship focuses on body politics, global health, immigration, and the cultural politics of health and medicine. Her recent research examines contemporary accounts of “biological danger” and the social, political, and scientific implications of preempting, preventing and eradicating such danger. Dr. Hester is a co-editor of “Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Americas.” She teaches classes on the foundations of social medicine; issues in humanities, science, and technology; and monsters, zombies, and cyborgs.