Erin Cory & Michaela Domiano

Erin Cory is a researcher, writer, and educator whose work explores the intersections of media, migration, and creative practice. She focuses on how displaced communities use storytelling and technology to navigate identity, belonging, and resistance. Erin is currently Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication Studies at Malmö University, where she collaborates on interdisciplinary projects that bring together scholars, artists, and activists.
Her research often takes shape through participatory and arts-based methods, including exhibitions, workshops, and multimedia storytelling. She has worked closely with refugee-led organizations, youth, and grassroots initiatives in both Europe and East Africa, co-creating spaces for dialogue, healing, and political expression. Committed to accessible and inclusive scholarship, Erin’s work challenges traditional academic boundaries and centers lived experience. Whether in the classroom or the field, she is driven by the question: how can we tell stories that resist erasure and build futures rooted in solidarity and care?

Michaela Domiano is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research engages questions of global and diasporic process, the physical and imagined geography of the US/Mexico border, and transnational perspectives and experiences of migration with a focus on Central American and Mexican migrant desire, solidarity, and agency. S he draws from her training in Creative Nonfiction writing to merge sensual writing with the critical to invite her audience into an affective encounter that calls attention to migrant bodies as storied by movement, desire, creative productions, and performances of resistance and solidarity in the face of the prohibition of borders. Her research, which is poetic and political, makes key contributions to migration and border studies by providing counter-perspectives to sensationalized and simplistic portrayals of undocumented migration through Mexico that dominate media and academic discourse. She is currently an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University.