​I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.

​My teaching and research interests include the war on drugs, violence, illicit economies, and immigration, with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.
 
I am working on a book project that uses comparative ethnography to examine the ways in which political context impacts drug-trafficking violence in Central America. 

I won a 2022 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award to support my project that is tracking Violence Against Public Figures (VAPF) in Central America.