Katharyne Mitchell is Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current research explores the role of faith-based organizations in providing humanitarian aid and refuge to migrants. Recent books include Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education (2018), and the Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (2019), coedited with Reece Jones and Jennifer Fluri. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.