The Editorial
Collective

Sarita Gaytán is jointly appointed in Sociology and Gender Studies. Her research interests include culture, consumption, globalization, national identity, political economy, and the environment. Her work has been published in Social Problems, Journal of Consumer Culture, Feminist Formations, Latino Studies, Environment and Planning A, and Ethnicities. Her book, ¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (2014) was published by Stanford University Press.

Debjani Chakravarty is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in sociology, gender studies, media studies, and religious studies. Dr. Chakravarty’s research and teaching interests include globalization and labor; feminist pedagogy and epistemology; new media; issues of gender, sexuality, religiosity, race, and class within citizenship/belonging. Her academic and activist work is guided by antiracist and anticolonial praxis. She has previously worked as a journalist and social worker in India and has published academic and artistic works exploring the topic of transnational feminisms, collaborative research ethics, and epistemic justice. Dr. Chakravarty’s latest research can be found in Sexuality and Culture, Equity and Excellence in Education, and Social & Cultural Geography. She is currently working on a project that explores the meaning and implications of gendered invisible labor.

Kimberly M. Jew is a previous co-editor and current guest editor for Frontiers. She is the Associate Professor of Theatre and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. Her areas of teaching and research include modern and contemporary drama with emphases in ethnic and Asian American theatres and Asian diasporic theatres. Her works have recently been published in Pacific Coast Philology, Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, and Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes. She is currently co-editing a volume on women’s leadership in the performing arts for the 4-part series Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance (Bloomsbury Press, 2026). At the U of U, she has also served as Area Head for the Theatre Teaching BFA program, Instructional Leader and Co-leader for the Diversity Scholars program, and interim Chair for the Division of Ethnic Studies.

Wanda S. Pillow is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah where she offers undergraduate and graduate courses in gender, race and sexuality studies; Women of Color feminisms; decolonial theory; and research methods.  Pillow’s work focuses on intersectional analyses of the relationship between subjectivity, representation, policy and lived experiences. Pillow examines how certain subjects—such as the teen mother—are historically, legally, and discursively formed across cultural productions, policy, and lived experience.  Utilizing feminist genealogy, Pillow’s publications reveal and challenge colonial epistemics in theory, methodology and practice.  Currently, Pillow is tracing colonial relations of gender, race, sexuality and citizenship through Sacajawea and York of the 1804-1806 Corps of Discovery expedition.

Silvia Patricia Solís is the Art Editor for Frontiers. She is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received her Ph.D from the University of Utah in Social Foundations with a focus in Anthropology of Education. U.S. Feminist of color, Indigenous Feminists, and decolonial feminist theory are at the center of her theoretical foundations. Her research traces curative knowings and practices people hold in relation to taking care and curing within family and community. It centers intergenerational learning, remembering, and everyday practices in the home and gardens of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in the diaspora living along the U.S. Mexico border.

Dr. Ana Carolina Antunes is the Book Review Editor for Frontiers. She is originally from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, but she has lived in Salt Lake City, UT since 2006. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the Education, Culture &Society Department at the University of Utah and is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Division of Gender Studies in the same institution. Dr. Antunes develops participatory projects with young people of refugee and immigrant backgrounds in afterschool settings and it is interested in how racialized and gendered readings of bodies mediate relationships in the educational system.

Elise Homan is the Managing Editor for Frontiers. She completed her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Utah. Her research examines the intersections of technology and media with contemporary activism and political movements with a concentration on cross-border and transnational contexts. She is also the Managing Editor for Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research journal, an academic environmental science journal housed at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ruiyan Zhu is the editorial intern for Frontiers. She is a senior from Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California, who currently serves as the editor-in-chief of her school newspaper and literary magazine. Her research examines the intersection of globalization and pedagogical processes in teaching English, with vernacular greetings as a case study. An aspiring poet, her work has been recognized by JUST POETRY!!! and the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.