About me
A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II. She revised and updated Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (2026) and coedited four special issues of the Radical History Review on militarism and capitalism, sanctuary, policing, and the Anthropocene. She coedits the “Borderlands” section of Public Books and “The Politics of Sanctuary” blog at the Smithsonian. She is a part of the Migration Scholars Collaborative, the Sanctuary Campus Network, and Sanctuary for All UIC and an associate professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.
