Ieva Jusionyte is the Watson Family University associate professor of international security and anthropology at Brown University. A legal and medical anthropologist who studies borders, violence, and security, she is the author of several books, including award-winning ethnography Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (2018) and Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (2024). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Fulbright Program, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, among others. Jusionyte has written about her research for The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian and discussed it broadly in the media, including on BBC and NPR. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of Global Action on Gun Violence. She is also a certified EMT-paramedic who volunteered as an emergency responder in Massachusetts, Florida, and Arizona.