Miriam Ticktin

Miriam Ticktin is the director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics (CPCP) and Professor of Anthropology and Black, Race and Ethnic Studies at the CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center. She has held positions at the New School for Social Research, University of Michigan, and Columbia University, and she has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, and an invited visiting professor at the EHESS and Paris 8 in Paris. She publishes widely on topics such as migration, borders, humanitarianism, and racial and gendered inequalities, and most recently, she has written about the idea of a decolonial feminist commons. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press, 2012), and co-editor of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book is Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World (University of Chicago Press, 2025). She is currently working on her next book, Containment and Commoning: From Bordered Worlds to Collective Life. Ticktin writes in public venues such as Truthout, LARB, and Open Democracy, and organizes with migrant social justice groups in the US and in France.