Lauren Heidbrink

Education

  • Ph.D. (2010), M.A. (2007) John Hopkins University, Anthropology
  • M.A./M.S. (2003) DePaul University, International Public Service Management
  • B.A. (1998) University of Virginia, City Planning, Latin American Studies, Spanish Literature

Research Interests

Lauren Heidbrink is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on the anthropology of childhood and migration in Central America. Her research and teaching interests include childhood and youth, transnational migration, performance and identity, engaged methodologies, and Central America. Her manuscript, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), examines the experiences of migrant children in U.S. federal facilities for unaccompanied children and following release. With support of the National Science Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, her recent manuscript (Stanford University Press, 2020) traces the impacts of the securitization of development on Indigenous Guatemalan youth following deportation from the U.S. and Mexico. Dr. Heidbrink is co-founder and editor of , a curated digital exhibit tracing the real and imagined circulations of global youth.  

Teaching

  • HDEV 205: Immigrant Youth in Long Beach
  • HDEV 307: Approaches to Childhood
  • HDEV 310: Qualitative Methods in Human Development
  • HDEV 320: Quantitative Methods in Human Development
  • HDEV 405: Latin American Childhoods
  • HDEV 470: Seminar/Practicum
  • ANTH 444/544: Transnational Migration
  • CLA 492: Liberal Arts Internship 

  • Heidbrink, L. In Press. Expert as educator: Subverting legal violence in immigration proceedings.Annals of Anthropological Practice.
  • Heidbrink, , Batz, G. and C. S谩nchez. In Press. 鈥淲hy would anyone leave?鈥: Development, overindebtedness, and migration in Guatemala. Maya America.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2021. . Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, Centro de investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y Centroam茅rica.
  • Heidbrink, L., G. Afable and Delia. 2021. . American Anthropologist 123(3): 685-702.
  • Statz, M. and Heidbrink, L. 2021. . The Lancet.
  • Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2021. Youth Circulations: Tracing the real and imagined circulations of global youth. In . Edited by F. Vavrus, M. Maynes & D. Levison. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2020. . Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. (Book Manuscript)
  • Heidbrink, L. 2020. . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1797479.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2020. Benevolent Complicity: The detention of unaccompanied children. In . Edited by K. Green, C. Coe and S. Balagopalan. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  • Statz, M. and L. Heidbrink. 2019. . Law and Policy 41(4): 365-386.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2019. . Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2019. Acts of Removal. In . Edited by D. Boehm and S. Terrio. New York: New York University Press.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2019. Borders. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2018. . Children and Youth Services Review 92: 30-38.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2017. . The Journal of the Social Sciences 3(4): 37-52
  • Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2017. . Children鈥檚 Geographies 15(5): 545-557.
  • Cardoso, J., K. Brabeck, D. Stinchcomb, D. Birman, L. Heidbrink, O. Price, and L. Zayas. 2017. . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (2017): 1-20.
  • Zayas, L.; K. Brabeck; L. Heffron, PhD; J. Dreby; E. Calzada; J. Parra-Cardona; A. Dettlaff; L. Heidbrink; K. Perreira; H. Yoshikawa. 2017. . Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.
  • Langtiw, C. and L. Heidbrink. 2016. . Community Psychology in Global Perspective 2(2): 40-55.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2015. . Journal of Applied Research on Children 5(2): Article 2, 1-29.
  • Richardson, W., L. Heidbrink and A. Muhammed. 2015. . In RIP Jim Crow: Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions. Series: Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, & Praxis. Virginia Stead, editor. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2014. . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Human Rights Series. (Book Manuscript)
  • Heidbrink, L. 2013. . American Bar Association Children鈥檚 Legal Rights Journal 33(1): 133-190.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2012. . In Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights. Ragnhild Sollund, editor. Great Britain: Emerald Press.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2010. Recasting the Agency of Unaccompanied Youth. In . R. Reynolds, et al., editors. Philadelphia: Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences and the Drexel iDea Repository. 2010.

  • Heidbrink, L. and Frank-Vitale, A. 2021. . International Organization for Migration: Migration Policy Practice 11(2): 21-25.
  • Heidbrink, L. and Frank-Vitale, A. 2021. . Contra Corriente.
  • Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2021. . Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies
  • Frank Vitale, A. and Heidbrink, L. 2021, May 24.. In These Times.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2021. . Penn Press.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2021. . Press Telegram.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2020, September. 鈥溾 Organization of American States, 68-77.
  • Heidbrink, L. and A.Grewe. 2020. . Youth Circulations.
  • Anthropologist Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees. 2020. . Society for Applied Anthropology.
  • Heidbrink, L., W. Duncan, and K. Yarris.2019. . Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
  • Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2019.. Youth Circulations.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2018. . Youth Circulations. 
  • Statz, M. and L. Heidbrink. 2018. . Anthropology News. DOI: 10.1111/AN.760.
  • Duncan, W.; Heidbrink, L. and K. Yarris. 2018. ; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2018. ; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology.
  • Heidbrink, L., G. Batz, & C. Sanchez. 2017. Almolonga: Informe Comunitario/Almolonga: A Community Report. Funded by National Science Foundation.
  • Heidbrink, L. 2017. . Youth Circulations.
  • Art exhibition, 鈥淢igration and Belonging: Narratives from a Highland Town/Migraci贸n y Pertenencia: Narrativas de un pueblo del altiplano.鈥
    • Almolonga, Guatemala, 2019
    • Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de Mexico, 2018
    • Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 2018
    • Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library, Long Beach, CA, 2017.
    • Conference on Emotional Geographies, American Association of Geographers, Long Beach, CA 2017.
    • University of California, Los Angeles, 2017.
  • Yarris, K.; L. Heidbrink; and W. Duncan. 2016. . Anthropology News.  
  • Heidbrink, L. and M. Statz. 2014, September. . Anthropology of Childhood and Youth Interest Group.
  • Casta帽eda, H.; L. Heidbrink; and K. Yarris. 2014. September. . Access Denied.