Diana Flores Ruíz is a feminist media scholar researching the mediated infrastructures of bordering regimes, inclusive of how artists and activists counter or remediate border technologies. Through the support of a Mellon Career Enhancement Fellowship, she is completing her first book manuscript, Image Capture: US-Mexico Border Apprehension and Immigrant Surveillance Abolition.

Her writing appears in Feminist Media Histories, Critical Ethnic Studies, Film Quarterly, and the Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, among other venues.

Dr. Ruíz is Assistant Professor of Race and Media in the department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington, where she also holds affiliate faculty appointments in the departments of Human Centered Design & Engineering, Comparative Histories of Ideas, and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.