
Associate Professor
Contact Information
gcorreac@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-6273
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 676
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1
Personal Websites
Biography
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration/migration, border security, social movements, and human trafficking.
Correa-Cabrera is author of Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017; Spanish version: Planeta, 2018). She is coeditor (with Victor Konrad) of the volume titled North American Borders in Comparative Perspective (University of Arizona Press, 2020). Her two new books (co-authored with Tony Payan) are entitled Las Cinco Vidas de Genaro García Luna (The Five Lives of Genaro García Luna; El Colegio de México, 2021) and La Guerra Improvisada: Los Años de Calderón y sus Consecuencias (The Improvised War: Calderón’s Years and Consequences; Océano, 2021).
She is past president of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS). She is coeditor of the International Studies Perspectives journal (ISP, Oxford University Press).
Correa-Cabrera received her PhD in political science from The New School for Social Research.
Areas of Research
- Mexico-U.S. Relations
- Latin American Politics
- Organized Crime
- Immigration
- Border Security
- Human Trafficking
- Latin America
- Comparative Politics
- Gender
- International Migration
- International Security
- Qualitative Methods
- Social Movements
- Energy Policy
- Security Policy