Curtis Marez is a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (Minnesota, 2004) and Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance (Minnesota, 2016), and he is currently completing a third book, titled University Babylon: Hollywood and the Making of Student Bodies. Marez is the past editor of American Quarterly and past president of the American Studies Association.