Amelia Frank-Vitale

Amelia Frank-Vitale is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Princeton University. An anthropologist of migration and violence in Central America and Mexico, Dr. Frank-Vitale has documented the dangers facing people migrating across Mexico and the strategies they develop – including coming together in caravans – to manage those risks and defy restrictions on movement.

Dr. Frank-Vitale holds an MA and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs from American University, and a BA in Anthropology from Yale University. Her work has been published in Geopolitics, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, EntreDiversidades, Public Anthropologist, and Trends in Organized Crime. Her commentary has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fortune Magazine, NACLA Report on the Americas, In These Times, Contra Corriente, and The World Policy Journal.