ABOUT
I am an Assistant Professor in International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. From 2020-2022, I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. During the 2019-2020 academic year, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane. I received my PhD in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019. I received my BA in Political Science with a concentration in Latin American and Iberian Studies from Haverford College in 2011.
Prior to beginning my graduate studies, I worked as a program associate at the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank based in Washington, DC that specializes in Western Hemisphere affairs. While at the Dialogue, I coordinated programs on migration and citizen security in Central America and Mexico and Congressional outreach. Beyond academia, I routinely serve as a country conditions expert on behalf of Guatemalan and Nicaraguan asylum-seekers fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries.
Prior to beginning my graduate studies, I worked as a program associate at the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank based in Washington, DC that specializes in Western Hemisphere affairs. While at the Dialogue, I coordinated programs on migration and citizen security in Central America and Mexico and Congressional outreach. Beyond academia, I routinely serve as a country conditions expert on behalf of Guatemalan and Nicaraguan asylum-seekers fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries.
Photo overlooking #RenunciaYa protest, Guatemala City, 13 June 2015 © Rachel Schwartz
