Monica J. Casper, Ph.D. is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University. She has published several books, including the award-winning The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery; The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections; and Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life. Her next book, Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z, focuses on racial politics of infant and maternal mortality in the U.S. Other research projects address domestic violence and traumatic brain injury (with Dan Morrison) and the global biopolitics of elephant trauma and rescue. She is founding co-editor of the successful NYU Press book series “Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century” and founding co-editor of the newly launched UA Press Book Series, “The Feminist Wire Books: Connecting Feminisms, Race, and Social Justice,” as well as a managing editor of The Feminist Wire and publisher of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism. She is also a creative writer. More information can be found at www.monicajcasper.com.