About Me
Photo by Laura Blume (Honduras 2018)
I am an assistant professor of political science and faculty affiliate in the Gender, Race, & Identity (GRI) department at the University of Nevada, Reno. My teaching and research interests include the war on drugs, violence, and illicit economies, with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. My book project uses comparative ethnography to examine the ways in which political context impacts drug-trafficking violence in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. The book is titled The Art of Trafficking: How Politics Shapes Narco-Strategies and Violence in Central America and is under contract with Oxford University Press. 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. |