Elaine Carey
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oakland University in Michigan and historian of Mexico, crime, social movements, and gender.
About this speaker
Elaine Carey is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oakland University in Michigan. She is also a historian of Mexico, crime, social movements, and gender. She is the author of over seventy articles, both scholarly and popular, and the books Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico (2005) and the award-winning Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime (2014). She also co-edited Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Transnational Flows of Contraband and Vice in North America (2011) and the textbook Protests in the Streets: 1968 Across the Globe (2016).