Tina Shull

Tina Shull (she/her) is a public historian of race, empire, immigration enforcement, and climate migration in the modern US and the World.

She holds a PhD in History from UC Irvine, a Master’s in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU, and a BA in History from UCLA. Her current book project, Reagan's Cold War on Immigrants, explores the rise of migrant detention in the early 1980s as a form counter-insurgency.

Shull is the creator of IMM Print and Climate Refugee Stories. In 2018-20, Shull was a post-doctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University where she taught in the Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights unit. She was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations in 2016 for her work in immigration detention storytelling, and a National Geographic Documenting Human Migrations education grant for Climate Refugee Stories in 2019.