Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border

Jusionyte, a legal and medical anthropologist, is the winner of the 2025 Mendez prize. In Exit Wounds, she follows firearms that circulate in the binational space between the United States and Mexico. She examines guns both as policy objects and cultural artifacts. Also drawing on her experience as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) who treated victims of gun violence, Jusionyte's book is both a cultural history of guns and an analysis of the politics and economics that perpetuate the vicious circle of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. A reception and book signing follow the event.