Job title:
Graduate Student
Department:
Anthropology
Bio/CV:
Levi Vonk is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco. His ethnographic research focuses on Central American migration through Mexico, with particular attention paid to how the migrant experience is explained in terms of violence, multiculturalism, asylum, and border externalization and militarization. His first book, which follows the journey of an undocumented migrant hacker, will be published by Bold Type Books (Hachette) in Spring 2022.
Vonk is the recipient of the 2021 IIS Simpson Research Grant.
Research interests:
- Human Rights / Norms
- Science / Environment
