Angélica Durán-Martínez is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and a co-director of its global studies Ph.D. program. Her research focuses on organized crime, political and criminal violence, and the state in Latin America. In 2018, she won the best book prize from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime, and in 2019 she won the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for the best first book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy. Join us for Durán-Martínez's lecture, "Crime, the State, and Violence in Latin America: Corruption, Repression, and Negotiation."
This event is sponsored by:
The Department of Political Science
The Center for Inter-American Policy and Research
The Murphy Institute
