She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her ethnographic and archival research focuses on airline travel in the African diaspora. A coeditor of Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge and the Question of Discipline (University of Michigan Press), she is currently completing a book about racial oppression and airborne mobility in the transatlantic corridor of the diaspora. Michael Birenbaum Quintero