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)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 and Hispanics Earth's Future (2021), Josiah M. Heyman, Alex Mayer, J. Alger.
• 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.
• Immigration Authorities Systematically Deny Medical Care for Migrants Who Speak Indigenous Languages Center for Migration Studies, Essays (2018), Jeremy Slack, Daniel Martinez, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Monitoring of Land Use/Land-Cover Changes in the Arid Transboundary Middle Rio Grande Basin Using Remote Sensing Remote Sensing 10 12 (2018), Stanley T. Mubako, Omar Belhaj, Josiah M. Heyman, William L. Hargrove, Carlos Reyes.
• How Does Neoliberalism Relate to Unauthorized Migration: The US- Mexico Case Berghahn (2018), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Marxism John Wiley and Sons (2018), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Blockading Asylum Seekers at Ports of Entry at the US-Mexico Border Puts Them at Increased Risk of Exploitation, Violence, and Death Center for Migration Studies, Essays (2018), Josiah M. Heyman, Jeremy Slack.
• Immigration or Citizenship? Two Sides of One Social History Routledge (2017), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Contributions of U.S.-Mexico Border Studies to Social Science Theory University of Arizona Press (2017), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Introduction University of Arizona Press (2017), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Spanish-English Bilingualism in Uneven and Combined Relations University of Arizona Press (2017), Josiah M. Heyman, Amado Alarcón.
• The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions University of Arizona Press (2017), Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Josiah M. Heyman.
• Why Caution is Needed Before Hiring Additional Border Patrol Agents and ICE Officers American Immigration Council (2017), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Border Thinking: Exclude or Relate NACLA Border Wars Blog (2017), Josiah M. Heyman.

• 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.
• (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.

• CISE-MSI: RPEP:S&CC:Information Systens meet CUltural COmpetencies (IS-CUCO): Enabling data-driven decision-making in underserved Hispanic populations