Macarena Gómez-Barris is the author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press, 2010), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), and Beyond the Pink Tide: Artistic and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press, 2018). She is co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards A Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and with Licia Fiol-Matta of Las Américas Quarterly, a special issue of American Quarterly (Fall 2014). Her new book project is At the Sea’s Edge: On Coloniality and the Oceanic. Her essays have appeared in Antipode, Social Text, GLQ, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies as well as numerous other venues and art catalogues. She has been a visiting professor at New York University, a Fulbright Scholar, and a visiting professor at FLACSO-Quito. She publishes on decolonial praxis, space and memory, and submerged perspectives. She is the founder and director of the Global South Center, a transdisciplinary space for experimental research, artistic, and activist praxis, and chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute.