Holly M Karibo, Ph.D
Holly M Karibo, Ph.D
Holly M. Karibo is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the history of vice, labor, and sexuality in transnational urban spaces from the late-19th century to the present. She is the author of the award-winning book Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland (UNC Press 2015), which examines the history of illegal economies in the Great Lakes border region during the post-World War II period. Karibo is also the co-editor (along with Dr. George T. Díaz, UTRGV) of a collection of essays titled Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America (University of Texas Press 2020). This volume traces the development of state regulation and policing practices in the US-Canada, US-Mexico, and Indigenous borderlands. Her research has also appeared in numerous journals, including Social History of Medicine, Left History, Journal of the Southwest, Histoire sociale/Social History, American Review of Canadian Studies, and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Karibo’s current book project, A New Home on the Range: Addiction, Treatment and Punishment at the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, examines the intersections of federal drug treatment and incarceration in the American West.
