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)

• Current socio-environmental transitions and disadvantaged consumers Journal of Political Ecology 32 1 (2025), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices Ecology & Society 29 4 (2024), Kyle Haines, Owen Temby, Josiah M. Heyman, Mya Brown, Fonna Forman, Christopher Fuller, Dongkyu Kim, Alex Mayer, Alexis Racelis.
• Borders: Exclude or Relate Journal on Migration and Human Security 12 3 (2024), Josiah M. Heyman.
• The Hidden Side of the West: The U.S.-Mexican Borderlands University of Utah Press (2024), Josiah M. Heyman.
• Accompaniment as Moral and Political Practices: Possibilities and Challenges University of Arizona Press (2024), Josiah M. Heyman.

• 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.

• 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