Kumi Silva

Dr. Kumi Silva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on identity politics, post-colonial studies, and the intersections of culture and security. She is the author of Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State (2016) and co-editor of Feminist Erasures (2015) and Migration, Identity, and Belonging (2022). Her current work examines the role of affective relationships in regulatory practices.

Her research interests include cultural studies, migration, and the politics of belonging. She has published widely on topics such as racialized identification, homeland boundaries, and the legal geographies of migration.