Eithne Luibhéid

Eithne Luibhéid
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineGender and women's studies
Institutions

Eithne P. Luibhéid is an academic in the field of gender and women's studies. Her research explores the connections between immigration and queer identities, particularly in the United States.

Education

Luibhéid received a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts from Hampshire College in 1986, after which she attended the University of Massachusetts, receiving a Master of Arts in English as a Second Language studies in 1992. In 1998, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy in ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkeley, where her research focused on women, gender, and sexuality.[1]

After receiving her doctorate, Luibhéid was a postdoctoral fellow with the Residential Research Group on the Futures of Queer Studies at the University of Irvine.[1]

Career

Luibhéid began her career at Bowling Green State University, where she worked from 1999 to 2005. She joined the University of Arizona in 2005 as the director of the Committee for LGBT Studies, becoming the Founding Director of the university's Institute for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies in 2005, a position she held until 2011.[1] As of 2026, she serves as a professor and acting director of the university's gender and women's studies, as well as director of the university's graduate program. Her "research examines the connections among queer lives, racialization processes, state immigration controls, and citizenship".[2]

Luibhéid is the author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (2002),[3][4] Pregnant on Arrival: Making the 'Illegal' Immigrant (2013),[5][6] and Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State (2025).[7][8] She is the editor of Lives that Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians (2021), as well as co-editor of Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings (2005), with Lionel Cantú;[9][10] A Global History of Sexuality (2014), with Robert M. Buffington and Donna J. Guy;[11] and Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of 'Illegalization,' Detention, and Deportation (2020), with Karma R. Chávez.[12][13]

Abolitionist Intimacies is a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies.[14]

Publications

  • Luibhéid, Eithne (2002). Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-816-63803-1.
  • Luibhéid, Eithne; Cantú, Lionel, eds. (2005). Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-252-05219-4.
  • Luibhéid, Eithne (2013). Pregnant on Arrival: Making the 'Illegal' Immigrant. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-816-68543-1.
  • Buffington, Robert M.; Luibhéid, Eithne; Guy, Donna J., eds. (2014). A Global History of Sexuality. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-252-05219-4.
  • Luibhéid, Eithne; Chavez, Karma R., eds. (2020). Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of 'Illegalization,' Detention, and Deportation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-05219-4.
  • Luibhéid, Eithne, ed. (2021). Lives that Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-36109-4.
  • Luibhéid, Eithne (2025). Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-478-06026-0.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eithne Luibhéid CV" (PDF). University of Arizona. Retrieved 2026-06-12.
  2. ↑ "Eithne Luibheid, Ph.D. | Gender & Women's Studies". University of Arizona. Archived from the original on 2025-11-17. Retrieved 2026-06-12.
  3. ↑ Rand, E. (July 2003). "Entry denied: controlling sexuality at the border". Women's Studies International Forum. 26 (4): 384–385. doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(03)00084-0.
  4. ↑ Stein, Arlene (January 2004). "Product Review: Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 33 (1): 89–90. doi:10.1177/009430610403300160. ISSN 0094-3061.
  5. ↑ Shandy, Dianna (December 2015). "Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant by EithneLuibhéidMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 304 pp". American Anthropologist. 117 (4): 850–851. doi:10.1111/aman.12413. ISSN 0002-7294.
  6. ↑ Masri, Hana (June 2015). "Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant by Eithne Luibhéid (review)". Feminist Formations. 27 (2): 203–205. doi:10.1353/ff.2015.0020. ISSN 2151-7371.
  7. ↑ DeVita, Annaliese (2026-01-02). "Review of Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State". NACLA Report on the Americas. 58 (1): 100–101. doi:10.1080/10714839.2026.2635103. ISSN 1071-4839.
  8. ↑ Walmsley, Jessica (2026-01-15). "Abolitionist intimacies: queer and trans migrants against the deportation state: by Eithne Luibhéid, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2025, 256 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-3123-9". Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1–2. doi:10.1080/01419870.2026.2614299. ISSN 0141-9870.
  9. ↑ Arriola, Elvia R. (September 2007). "Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings". Latino Studies. 5 (3): 383–385. doi:10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600260. ISSN 1476-3435.
  10. ↑ La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence (April 2007). "Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings. Edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Lionel Cantú, Jr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. xlvi, 199. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper". The Americas. 63 (4): 671–672. doi:10.1353/tam.2007.0066. ISSN 0003-1615.
  11. ↑ Levine, Philippa (2016). "A Global History of Sexuality: The Modern Era ed. by Robert M. Buffington, Eithne Luibhéid, Donna J. Guy, and: Sex, Power and Slavery ed. by Gwyn Campbell, Elizabeth Elbourne, and: Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education by Jonathan Zimmerman, and: Sex and Control: Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884–1914 by Daniel J. Walther". Journal of World History. 27 (2): 362–368. doi:10.1353/jwh.2016.0093. ISSN 1527-8050.
  12. ↑ Sowards, Stacey K. (2021-10-02). "Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation , edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2020, 271 pages, $24.95 (softcover), $125 (hardcover).: edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2020, 271 pages, $24.95 (softcover), $125 (hardcover)". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 107 (4): 500–503. doi:10.1080/00335630.2021.1980949. ISSN 0033-5630.
  13. ↑ Escobar, Martha D. (2021). "Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention and Deportation by Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez". Feminist Formations. 33 (2): 346–349. doi:10.1353/ff.2021.0021. ISSN 2151-7371.
  14. ↑ "Announcing the Finalists for the 38th Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. 2026-03-18. Archived from the original on March 20, 2026. Retrieved 2026-03-26.
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