Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government, and co-director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are border studies, U.S.-Mexico relations, international security, migration studies, and illicit networks. She is author of Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (2017; Spanish version, 2018). Her newest co-authored book is entitled Frontera: A Journey across the U.S.-Mexico Border (2024). Her forthcoming book in Spanish (2025) is titled Cartels Inc: A “New Generation” of Criminal Networks (in contract with Siglo XXI Editores). Professor Correa-Cabrera is Past President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) and co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives journal. She currently conducts research on human smuggling and transnational crime networks, and is writing her upcoming book titled Coyotes LLC: The Industry of Human Smuggling and the American “Dream.” Professor Correa-Cabrera was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Mexico and Visiting Scholar at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana in 2014-2015. She is now Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Davidson Institute for Global Security of The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in Dartmouth College (Fall 2025). She is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics, U.S.-Mexico relations, (im)migration, and border security for several media outlets.