The University of Arizona Press

Jennifer Bickham Mendez is professor of sociology at William & Mary, where she has taught and conducted research for more than twenty years. She is the author of From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua, and co-editor, along with Nancy Naples, of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identity, and Globalization. She lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she raised her two children and continues to conduct community-engaged research.