Holly Karibo

Holly M. Karibo is an Associate Professor 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. Karibo is the author of the award-winning book Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland (The University of North Carolina Press 2015) and Rehab on the Range: Addiction and Incarceration in the American West (University of Texas Press 2024). She is also the co-editor of Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America (University of Texas Press 2020).  Her research has also appeared in numerous journals, including Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Journal of the Southwest, Social History of Medicine, Left History, Histoire sociale/Social History, American Review of Canadian Studies, and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Karibo is the recipient of over thirty fellowships, grants, and awards, and was appointed as a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in North American Studies (2024-2025) and the Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser University (2020-2021).