BIO
Dr. Charles Larratt-Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has a BA in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies from Brooklyn College (CUNY), a MA in International Relations from the City College of New York (CUNY), and a PhD from the University of Toronto in Political Science. Previously, he was a visiting professor at the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) in Mérida, Venezuela, a visiting researcher at the Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP) in Bogotá, Colombia, and a research professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Querétaro, México. His research focuses on human security and transnational migration with a regional focus on Latin America.