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
Professor 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 co-editor (with Victor Konrad) of the volume titled North American Borders in Comparative Perspective (University of Arizona Press, 2020). Her two most recent books in Spanish (co-authored with Dr. Tony Payan) are 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). Her newest book (co-authored with Sergio Chapa) is entitled Frontera: A Journey across the U.S.-Mexico Border (Texas Christian University Press, 2024).
Professor Correa-Cabrera is Past President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) and co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives journal (ISP, Oxford University Press). She is currently a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Mexico conducting research on the industry of human smuggling and its transnational crime networks. As part of this program she is a visiting scholar at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana, Baja California) and is writing her forthcoming book entitled Coyotes LLC. Dr. Correa-Cabrera is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics and issues related to (im)migration and the U.S.-Mexico Border in many media outlets.
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Areas of Research
- Border studies
- Border security
- Drug trafficking and organized crime
- Migration
- Human trafficking
- Energy and security
- U.S.-Mexico relations
- Contemporary Mexican politics
- Latin American politics
- Social Movements