Sara McKinnon is Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture in the Department of Communication Arts in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, and co-chair of the Human Rights Program. Her research is the areas of migration, legal studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of the book Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2016), which charts the incorporation of gender provisions in US refugee and asylum law within the context of broader national and global politics, and co-editor of the book Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (Penn State University Press, 2016), which considers a range of approaches for using ethnographic and field-based research methods in rhetorical research, and the forthcoming Foreign Policy Rhetorics in the Global Era: Concepts and Case Studies (Michigan State University Press, 2024).