Summary

Laura Blume is an Assistant Professor of Political w88 online game at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work focuses on issues of human security, with a regional focus in Latin America. Her teaching and research interests include the war on drugs, violence, illicit economies, immigration and democratization throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. She is currently working on a book project that uses comparative ethnography to examine the ways in which political context impacts drug-trafficking violence in Central America. Her work has been published in Comparative w88 online game Studies, Journal of Politics in Latin America, NACLA Report on the Americas, and World Development. She won a 2022 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award for her project, “Cataloguing Murder: Tracking Violence Against Public Figures in Central w88 online game.”

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• Human security
• Organized crime
• Gangs
• Corruption
• Central w88 online game
• Mexico

Courses taught

• w88 online game 405F: Problems of World Politics
• w88 online game 211: Introduction to Comparative Politics
• PSC 407E/607E: w88 online game Systems of Latin America
• PSC 407Q/607Q: w88 online game Violence
• PSC 403Z: Special Topics in Public Policy & w88 online game (The U.S. War on Drugs)

Education

• Ph.D., Political w88 online game, Boston University, 2020
• B.A., Political w88 online game, Simmons College, 2013