Agnes Mondragón-Celis is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. Her research explores the forms of knowledge production and circulation that emerge in contexts of generalized violence and opacity, analyzing how they are constitutive of political authority. She is currently developing a book manuscript titled Mediations of War: Statehood, Criminality, and the Politics of Indistinction in Mexico, which explores the highly mediated, partial, and oblique ways in which Mexicans apprehend the “war on drug trafficking,” and how such perceptions shape the state and the drug trafficking world. Her second project, titled Femininity and Drug War Violence in Mexico: The Wounded Body and the Politics of Visibility, explores how feminists in Mexico attend to the signifying dimension of gender-based violence and mobilize media in the service of knowledge production, political action, and solidarity to confront such violence. Her work has been published in American Anthropologist and Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.