Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University and co-director of the Corruption, Networks, and Transnational Crime Research Center (CONTRA). She studies transnational crime, security and geopolitics in the Americas. She holds a PhD in Political Science from The New School for Social Research. Her areas of expertise are organized crime, migration studies, US-Mexico relations, border studies, drug policy, social movements, and human trafficking. She is author of Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017; Spanish version: Planeta, 2018). Her newest book (co-authored with Sergio Chapa) is entitled Frontera: A Journey Across the U.S.-Mexico Border (Texas Christian University Press, 2024). Professor Correa-Cabrera is Past President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS). She is co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives (ISP) journal