Faculty Profiles

Tay Villaseñor is a third-year PhD student in Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with experience in critical, human and political geography, migration studies and cultural anthropology. Her research explores sanctuary as a community-based practice of care for migrants in Central Texas. Grounded in social justice and informed by queer and feminist geographies, she examines how humanitarianism challenges immigration policy, enforcement, incarceration and anti-sanctuary practices in the city of Austin.