Michael Dear is Professor of City and Regional Planning in the College of Environmental Design and co-director of the Disability Studies Research Cluster on campus. His current research focuses on comparative urbanism, and the future of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He recently co-edited a volume on transdisciplinary work in geography and the humanities, entitled GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place (Routledge). Founding editor of the scholarly journal Society and Space: Environment & Planning D, Professor Dear is a leading exponent of the Los Angeles School of Urbanism. His books include: From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory; Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California; and The Postmodern Urban Condition. He is co-curator of “Trazando la Línea/Building the Line,” opening in March 2012 at the Centro Estatal de las Artes in Mexicali, the state capital of Baja California, Mexico.