Jonathan Xavier Inda earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. His research areas include the anthropology of globalization, migrant and diasporic cultures, governmentality and life politics, the critical study of race, science, and medicine, and Latino populations in the United States. Among his publications are Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell 2006) and the edited volumes Race, Identity, and Citizenship (Wiley-Blackwell 1999), Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics (Wiley-Blackwell 2005), and The Anthropology of Globalization, 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). Dr. Inda is currently Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.