Josiah Heyman

{{Short description|American anthropologist}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Anthropology

| workplaces = University of Texas at El Paso

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| alma_mater = CUNY Graduate Center (Ph.D., 1988)

| thesis_title = The working people of the United States-Mexico border in the region of the northeastern Sonora, 1886-1986

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Josiah McConnell Heyman (born 1958){{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91026288.html |title=Heyman, Josiah McC. |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=2017-08-07}} is an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he is also an Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues and the director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies.{{Cite web |url=http://faculty.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=faculty.utep.edu/jmheyman |title=Josiah McC. Heyman, Ph.D. |last=Ph.D. |first=Josiah McC. Heyman |website=faculty.utep.edu |language=en-US |access-date=2017-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123190304/http://faculty.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=faculty.utep.edu%2Fjmheyman |archive-date=2007-11-23 |url-status=dead }} He is known for his studies of the United States-Mexico border, which he has been studying for over 30 years. He has also researched the increasing extent to which the border has been enforced by the United States Border Patrol.{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/17/border-force-assisting-local-police/4074171/ |title=More border agents assisting local police |last=O'Dell |first=Rob |date=2013-12-17 |website=USA TODAY |language=en |access-date=2017-08-07}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-billion-dollar-industry-of-border-security/3/ |title=The billion-dollar industry of border security |date=2012-06-08 |website=CBS News |language=en |access-date=2017-08-07}}