M. Bianet Castellanos is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of American Studies and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has collaborated with Yucatec Maya communities for over three decades. Her recent book, Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico, analyzes how Maya families make sense of the cultural, political, and legal ramifications of neoliberal housing policies. Her other works include A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (University of Minnesota, 2010); and edited the volumes Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas (co-edited with Lourdes Guiérrez Nájera and Arturo Aldama; University of Arizona, 2012), and Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South (University of Arizona Press, 2019).