A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (UC Press, 2020) and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (UNC Press, 2016; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up, John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies, ASA, 2017), and articles in a range of academic and public-facing venues. She has co-edited four special issues of the Radical History Review—“Militarism and Capitalism (Winter 2019), “Radical Histories of Sanctuary” (Fall 2019), “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” (Spring 2020), and “Alternatives to the Anthropocene” (Winter 2023). With Cat Ramirez, she coedits the “Borderlands” section of Public Books, and with Sam Vong, she coedits “The Politics of Sanctuary” blog of the Smithsonian Institution. She is an associate professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.