Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
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Professional affiliation
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are organized crime, migration studies, US-Mexico relations, border studies and international security. She is Past President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) and is co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives journal (ISP, Oxford University Press).
Wilson Center Projects
Trafficking in Persons, Irregular Immigration and Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico
Full Biography
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. 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.
Major Publications
Democracy in “Two Mexicos”: Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies (co-edited with Kathleen Staudt): The Multiple U.S.-Mexico Borders. Volume 29, Issue 4, 2014.
Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy and Civil War in Mexico (UT Press, forthcoming Spring 2017).