Gema Santamaría

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History and International Affairs at George Washington University. Her work centers on questions of violence, crime, religion, and gender in twentieth and twentieth-first century Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico and Central America. 

Professor Kloppe-Santamaría is a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Mexico Institute, and a collaborator and member of Noria Research’s Mexico & Central America Program. Her popular writing can be found in Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, Open Democracy, the International Peace Institute, and ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.  

She teaches classes on violence, crime, and drugs in Latin America; modern and colonial Latin America, and US-Latin American relations.