Víctor Espinosa is a sociologist, ethnographer, and curator. His research focuses on the intersection of art and transnational migration. He is the author of Martín Ramírez: Framing His Life and Art (University of Texas Press 2015) and El dilema del retorno: Migración, género y pertenencia en un contexto transnacional (El Colegio de Michoacan, 1998). Espinosa is currently working on a book project, Staging Migrant Suffering: Melodrama in Latin American and Latino Activism, with Ana Elena Puga (first author), Associate Professor, The Ohio State University (under review by the University of Michigan Press).