Josiah McC, Heyman was born in Oklahoma City, OK and grew up there, Blacksburg, VA, and Pittsburgh, PA. He received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University in 1980 and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, where he studied with Eric Wolf. He has dedicated his scholarly and personal career to the people of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He is married to Merlyn Heyman, and has one son, Robert Heyman.

• Distinguished Achievement Award for the Critical Study of North America - Society for the Anthropology of North America (11/01/2021-11/30/2021)
• Outstanding faculty award - College of Liberal Arts (04/15/2009)
• Curl Essay Prize - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (03/01/1999)

• Ph D in Anthropology, City University of New York (1988)
• BA in Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University (1980)

• “Borders” as a metaphor in implementing large-scale, holistic water sustainability research Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 79 2 (2024), William L. Hargrove, Josiah M. Heyman.
• The Causes Behind the Ciudad Juárez Migrant Detention Center Fire North American Congress on Latin America (2023), Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack.
• Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth-century Spain Journal of Sociolinguistics 27 2 (2023), Amado Alarcon-Alarcon, Maria J. Muiños-Villaverde, Maria D. Serrano-Alonso, Josiah M. Heyman.
• The Causes Behind the Ciudad Juárez Migrant Detention Center Fire NACLA (2023), Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack.
• The future of water in a desert river basin facing climate change and competing demands: A holistic approach to water sustainability in arid and semi-arid regions Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 46 (2023), W.L. Hargrove, Josiah M. Heyman, Alex Mayer, Ali Mirchi, A. Granados-Olivas, G. Ganjegunte, D. Gutzler, Deana D. Pennington, F.A. Ward, L. G. Chavira, Z. Sheng, Saurav Kumar, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, W.S. Walker.
• The U.S.-Mexico border as a model for social-cultural theory: A brief discussion City and Society 35 1 (2023), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Rethinking Borders Journal of Borderlands Studies (2022), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Predictions of household water affordability under conditions of climate change, demographic growth, and fresh groundwater depletion in a southwest US city indicate increasing burdens on the poor PLoS ONE 17 11 (2022), Josiah M. Heyman, Alex Mayer, Alger Jessica.
• The Use of a SWOT Analysis to Evaluate a COVID-19 Mitigation Project in the Paso del Norte Region Health Promotion Practice 25 2 (2022), Nora Hernandez, Guillermina G. Núñez-Mchiri, Josiah M. Heyman, Adriana Orozco.
• Supporting Regional Water Sustainability Decision-Making through Integrated Modeling 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) (2022), Luis Garnica-Chavira, Natalia Viillanueva-Rosales, Josiah M. Heyman, Deana Pennington, Katalina Salas.
• Transboundary Scientific Collaboration in Water Security Research: A Case Study on the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Paso del Norte Region Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua & Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (2022), Alex Mayer, Josiah M. Heyman, Alfredo Granados-Olivas, Deana Pennington, William L. Hargrove, Luis Garnica-Chavira, Stanley Mubako, Sergio S. Solis, Luis Alatorre-Cejudo, Hugo Rojas-Villalobos, Adán Pinales-Munguía.
• Una Plataforma Bilingüe basada en web para el Modelado y la Visualización de Datos para la Sustentabilidad de Recursos Hídricos Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua & Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. (2022), Luis A. Garnica-Chavira, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana Pennington, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Who Is Watched? Racialization of Surveillance Technologies and Practices in the US-Mexico Borderlands Information & Culture 57 2 (2022), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Faces of Death: The Border Drug War Temblores (2022), Josiah M. Heyman, Howard Campbell.
• Border walls and passages: Effects on labor exploitation Routledge (2022), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Introduction to the Special Section: Latin American Voices on Illegal and Marginally Legal Practices at Borders Journal of Illicit Economies and Development 3 2 (2021), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Special Section: Latin American Voices on Illegal and Marginally Legal Practices at Borders Journal of Illicit Economies and Development 3 2 (2021), Josiah M. Heyman, Efren Sandoval, Brigida Rinoldi, Fernando Rabossi, Alberto Barrera-Enderle, Alberto Hernandez.
• Resiliencia ante la entre los trabajadores del sector alimenticio en El Paso y Moore, Texas, y al sur de Doña Ana, Nuevo México, en Estados Unidos Resiliency among Food Production Workers in El Paso and Moore, TX and South Doña Ana, New Mexico, Estados Unidos Migración y Salud/Migration and Health 3 3 (2021), Nora Y. Hernandez, Josiah M. Heyman, Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri, Adriana Orozco.
• Investigating Management of Transboundary Waters through Cooperation: A Serious Games Case Study of the Hueco Bolson Aquifer in Chihuahua, Mexico and Texas, United States Water 13 15 (2021), Alex Mayer, Josiah M. Heyman, Alfredo Granados, William L. Hargrove, Mathew Sanderson, Erica Martinez, Adrian Vasquez, Luis C. Alatorre.
• Is there a bilingual advantage? The effects of non-English language skills on occupational attainment among immigrants and natives International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021 270 (2021), Josep Ubalde, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Proliferation of Border and Security Walls Task Force Report American Anthropological Association (2021), Josiah M. Heyman, Alvarez Roberto, Julie Peteet, Reinhard Bernbeck, Zahir Ahmed, Fabian Crespo.
• The US-Mexico border since 2014: overt migration contention and normalized violence Edward Elgar (2021), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Impacts of Urbanization and Intensification of Agriculture on Transboundary Aquifers: A Case Study Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWR) 57 1 (2021), William L. Hargrove, Zhu-Ping Sheng, Josiah M. Heyman, Alfredo Granados, Stanley T. Mubako.
• A serious games case study: Can we improve the management of transboundary waters through cooperation? Water (2021), Alex Mayer, Josiah M. Heyman, A. Granados Olivas, William L. Hargrove, W. Sanderson.
• The President and Immigration Law Series: The Consequences of the Free Rein of Enforcement on Borderlands Society Just Security (website) (2020), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Border Enforcement Developments Since 1993 and How to Change CBP Center for Migration Studies (2020), Daniel E. Martinez, Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack.
• Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity Duke University Press (2020), Josiah M. Heyman, Sarah B. Horton.
• Asilo, fronteras y detención masiva en la frontera México-Estados Unidos durante el COVID -19 Observatorio de Relaciones Transfronterizas Latinoamericanas 2 (2020), Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack.
• Asylum and Mass Detention at the U.S.- Mexico Border during COVID-19 Journal of Latin American Geography (2020), Jeremy Slack, Josiah M. Heyman.
• A Comprehensive Process for Stakeholder Identification and Engagement in Addressing Wicked Water Resources Problems Land 9 4 (2020), William L. Hargrove, Josiah M. Heyman.
• The soft path to water: A conservation-based approach to improved water access and sanitation for rural communities Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 75 2 (2020), William L. Hargrove, Nayeli W. Holguin, Chilton L. Tippin, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Borders of Wealth and Poverty: Ideas Stimulated by Comparing the Mediterranean and U.S.-Mexico Borders Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo 21 2 (2020), Josiah M. Heyman, Natalia Ribas-Mateos.
• Language as raw material, scripts as tools and conversations as product: effects of linguistic production on job categories in outsourced call centres New Technology, Work, and Employment 35 (2020), Amado Alarcon-Alarcon, Josep Ubalde-Buenafuente, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Las oportunidades para la sustentabilidad hídrica en las Cuencas de Chihuahua: Estrategias para compensar las demandas socioeconómicas y ambientales ante los retos del cambio climático (Agua-Energía-Alimentación) Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora ITSON (2019), Alfredo Granados-Olivas, Luis C. Alatorre-Cejudo, Josiah M. Heyman, Arturo Soto-Ontiveros, Adan Pinales-Munguia, Sergio S. Solis, Hugo L. Rojas-Villalobos, Adrian Vazquez-Galvez, Maria E. Torres-Olave, Luis C. Bravo-Pena, Oscar Ibanez, William L. Hargrove, Alex Mayer, Zhuping Sheng, .
• Procesos de frontera: Tensiones Entorno a la Migracion Centroamericana en el Sur de Texas, de 2013 a 2016 Plaza y Valdes, CIESAS (2019), Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack, Emily Guerra.
• Why Border Patrol Agents and CBP Officers Should Not Serve as Asylum Officers Center for Migration Studies (2019), Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack, Daniel Martinez.
• Boost border security by $8B to cut drug crime in the U.S. and Latin America Dallas Morning News (2019), Josiah M. Heyman, Mark W. Lusk, Amy J. Bach.
• Evolución temporal del flujo del agua subterránea en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua aplicando modelación geoespacial TECNOCIENCIA Chihuahua 12 2 (2019), Arturo Soto-Ontiveros, Alfredo Granados-Olivas, Adan Pinales-Munguia, Sergio S. Solis, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Provider perceptions of the effects of current U.S. immigration enforcement policies on service utilization in a border community Social Development Issues 41 1 (2019), Isabel Latz, Mark W. Lusk, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Bordering a "Crisis": Central American Asylum Seekers and the Reproduction of Dominant Border Enforcement Practices Journal of the Southwest 60 (2019), Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack, Emily Guerra.

• Household Utility-Water Affordability: Emerging Challenges Due to Climate change, Demographic Growth, and Fresh Groundwater Depletion (2023), Volume San Francisco, CA, Josiah M. Heyman, Alex Mayer.
• Fostering the Use of Scientific Water Models from Different Stakeholder Perspectives through the Sustainable Water Through Integrated Modeling (SWIM) Platform (2022), Volume Puerto Rico, Luis A. Garnica, Josiah M. Heyman, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• Fostering the Use of Scientific Water Models from Different Stakeholder Perspectives through the Sustainable Water Through Integrated Modeling (SWIM) Platform (2022), Volume Puerto Rico, Luis A. Garnica, Josiah M. Heyman, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington.
• CSSI Elements: Data: HDR: SWIM to a Sustainable Water Future (2022), Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana D. Pennington, Josiah M. Heyman, Luis A. Garnica.
• (Re)thinking, Acting, and Inhabiting the Border-Temporality Nexus (2020), Volume virtual, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Anthropologists and U.S. Immigration: The Current Moment (2020), Volume virtual, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Regional Lives of Migration (2020), Volume virtual, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Lifetimes of a Transboundary Aquifer: Drivers of Change and Proposals for Response (2019), Volume Valencia, Spain, Josiah M. Heyman, A. Mayer, William L. Hargrove, A. Granados, Deana D. Pennington.
• “Convergence to One Water”: A New Research Approach to Water Security in Dry Climates (2019), Volume Beijing, China, William S. Walker, E. Archuleta, Malynda A. Cappelle, William L. Hargrove, Josiah M. Heyman, Deana D. Pennington, Ivonne Santiago, Z. Sheng, P. Xu.
• Indice de Percepcion de la Frontera (2019), Volume El Paso Community Foundation, Josiah M. Heyman, Eva M. Moya.
• Border Perception Index: Binational Survey Presentation of Results (2019), Volume College of Health Sciences and School of Nursing, Room 211, Josiah M. Heyman, Eva M. Moya.
• Border Perception Index; A general population survey in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua (2019), Volume El Paso Community Foundation, Eva M. Moya, Josiah M. Heyman.

• BELIEVE: To Create a Plan of Alternatives for a Binacional Espacio Libre-Infraestructura
• CISE-MSI: RPEP:S&CC:Information Systens meet CUltural COmpetencies (IS-CUCO): Enabling data-driven decision-making in underserved Hispanic populations
• POOR URBAN CONSUMERS CONFRONT THE COSTLY FUTURE OF WATER
• The National COVID-19 Resiliency Network - Impacting Food Production Workers in El Paso, Moore, and Doña Ana Counties