Josiah McConnell Heyman (born 1958) is an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the
University of Texas at El Paso, where he is also an Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues and the director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies. He is known for his studies of the
United States-Mexico border, which he has been studying for over 30 years. He has also researched the increasing extent to which the border has been enforced by the
United States Border Patrol
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Education
Bachelor of Arts in 1980 in Anthropology from
Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1988 from the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
References
External links
Faculty page*
1958 births
Living people
American anthropologists
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Texas at El Paso faculty
CUNY Graduate Center alumni
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