Gema Kloppe-Santamaría

Assistant Professor of Latin American History, George Washington University Sociologist and historian specializing on violence, gender, and crime in Latin America. Assistant Professor at George Washington University, Global Fellow at The Wilson Center, Author of "In the Vortex of Violence".

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I am a historian and sociologist who specializes on questions of violence, crime, religion, and gender in twentieth and twentieth-first century Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico and Central America. I am an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at George Washington University and a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center. I am the author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press, 2020).

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Talks

The politics of violence in Mexico and Central America

01 December 2021, 05:30 PM
Romain Le Cour Grandmaison Markus Hochmüller Gema Kloppe-Santamaría Sandra Ley Cecilia Farfán-Méndez

How US policy shapes organized crime in Mexico

13 October 2022, 10:00 PM
Gabriel Mondragón Toledo Mónica Meltis Luis Daniel Vazquez Gema Kloppe-Santamaría Michael Chamberlin Olivia Leon

Women in OCGs Latin America

14 October 2022, 01:00 AM
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría Deborah Bonello Carolina Sampó Elaine Carey

Women in Drug Trafficking in LATAM

18 October 2023, 10:00 PM
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría Teresa Martinez Trujillo Jennifer Fleetwood Elaine Carey