Molly Todd is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the International Affairs Program and the Department of Sociology at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ. She earned her PhD in 2023 from the interdisciplinary ASPECT program at Virginia Tech, where her research focused on community-engaged art and borders in the Americas. Her research employs collaborative methods across sites in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States to observe & participate in the ways that artistic production navigates and shapes border politics and their imaginaries. She has published several articles reflecting these efforts, as well as a chapter in the edited volume Maré from the Inside: Art, Culture, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (VT Publishing 2021).