ANGELICA DURAN-MARTINEZ Angelica_duranmartinez@uml.edu Phone number: (401) 480-7066 Education BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Political Science, M.A (2009) Ph.D (2013) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2006 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIA, Bogotá, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 2000 Employment University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Political Science, Assistant Professor (since 2013) Peer Reviewed Publications Criminals, cops, and politicians: Dynamics of drug violence in Colombia and Mexico (book manuscript under review with Oxford University Press) To Kill and Tell? State power, criminal competition, and drug violence (R&R in Journal of Conflict Resolution) Drugs around the corner: Domestic drug markets and violence in Colombia and Mexico (R&R in Journal Latin American Politics and Society). Presidents, Political Parties and Referenda in Latin America, Comparative Political Studies 45(9):1159-1187. (August 2012) Does illegality breed violence? Drug trafficking and state-sponsored protection rackets, with Richard Snyder, Crime, Law and Social Change 52:3 (September 2009) Drug Trafficking and State Sponsored Protection Rackets in Mexico and Colombia, with Richard Snyder, Colombia Internacional 70 (December 2009) Crossing borders: political transnationalism among Dominican New Yorkers, Revista de Ciencia Política, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2010) The Frontier: a strategic pivot of national integration, Revista Territorios, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá (2002) Book Chapters The international politics of drugs and illicit trade in the Americas with Peter Andreas, in Dominguez and Covarrubias, eds., Handbook of Latin America in the World, forthcoming 2014. Jóvenes y violencia en Medellín: entre transformación urbana y violencia persistente in Alvarado, A (Ed). Violencia Juvenil y Acceso a la Justicia en América Latina (in Spanish, 2014)
Jóvenes en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua: entre la falta de oportunidades y el miedo a la violencia (with U. Alanis) in Alvarado, A (Ed). Violencia Juvenil y Acceso a la Justicia en América Latina (in Spanish, 2014) The politics of drugs and illicit trade in the Americas with Peter Andreas, in Kingstone and Yashar, eds., Handbook of Latin American Politics, Routledge (2012) Work in Progress Hiding violence to deal with the state: criminal pacts in El Salvador and Medellín (with Jose Miguel Cruz) Non-Peer Reviewed and Opinion Pieces Building An Effective Research Safety Protocol And Emergency Exit Strategies. Working paper series from the Social Science Research Council on Research Security. (2014) El acuerdo sobre drogas ilícitas: esperanzas y desafíos in Razón Pública http://www.razonpublica.com/index.php/conflicto-drogas-y-paz-temas-30/7636-el-acuerdo-sobre-drogasil%c3%adcitas-esperanzas-y-desaf%c3%ados.html La negociación con las FARC y el debate sobre la política antidrogas, in Razón Pública http://www.razonpublica.com/index.php/conflicto-drogas-y-paz-temas-30/7200-la-negociaci%c3%b3ncon-las-farc-y-el-debate-sobre-la-pol%c3%adtica-antidrogas.html (November 2013) Cali o la invisibilidad de la violencia, in Razón Pública http://www.razonpublica.com/index.php/conflicto-drogas-y-paz-temas-30/3671-cali-o-la-invisibilidad-dela-violencia.html (April 2013) Book review: International Drug Control: Consensus Fractured by David Bewley-Taylor. Published in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice books, Rutgers School of Law Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/international_drug_control.html (November 2012) "Violencia Urbana, Narcotráfico y Conflicto: algunas anotaciones para el debate", in: www.indepaz.org (December 2010) Mid Year Report on Drug Violence in Mexico, Transborder Institute, with Gayle Hazard and Viridiana Rios (2010) La Colombianización de México: estableciendo términos apropiados de debate, in Revista Perspectiva, Edición 24 (2010) Referendos en América Latina: una herramienta que fortalece o debilita las instituciones democráticas?, in Revista Perspectiva, Edición 21 (2009) Report The impact of organized crime on democratic governance in Central America and the Caribbean Case studies on illegal economies and corruption in Nicaragua, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica. Working paper, Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior FRIDE. 2
Honors, Fellowships, and Grants Cogut Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University, Fall 2012. Drugs, Security, and Democracy Fellowship, Social Science Research Council and Open Society Foundation, 2011. Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2010-2011. United States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar, 2010-2011. Tinker Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, Brown University, 2008 and 2009. Graduate Development Program Fellowship and Summer Travel Grant, Watson Institute, Brown University, 2008 and 2009. Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences S4 Fellow, Brown University, 2008. United Nations-Fulbright Fellowship, 2006. Tinker Travel Grant Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, 2004. Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies in the US Barsa Supplemental Award, 2004-2006. Colfuturo Scholarship, 2004-2006. Teaching Experience UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, Instructor Introduction to Comparative Politics, Politics of Development, Latin American Politics since 2013 BROWN UNIVERSITY, Teaching Assistant Introduction to Comparative Politics head instructor Prof. Jeeyang Baum, 2013. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Teaching Assistant International Law and Politics of Human Rights head instructor Prof. Nina Tannenwald, 2010. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Teaching Assistant Politics of the Illicit Global Economy head instructor Prof. Peter Andreas, 2009. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Guest Speaker, Extension Course (Certificate) on Analysis of Current Political Events, two sessions on Democratization in Latin America and Criminality and Governance in Latin America, Bogotá, 2007. 3
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, Political Science Department, Teaching assistant. Master s Course Neoinstitutional Analysis and Rational choice theory, Bogotá, 2003. Conference Presentations WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS, Drug Trafficking and the Peace Process in Colombia, 2014 UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE, How Might a Peace Agenda Address the Nexus of Drug Trafficking and Violence? Evidence from Cali and Medellín Conference Pending Issues on the Colombian Peace Agenda, 2013 MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MPSA Chicago, 2013 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION LASA Washington D.C., 2013 State power, criminal competition, and drug violence: a systematic comparison between Colombian and Mexican cities ITAM, STANFORD UNIVERSITY Violencia y narcotráfico en Cali y Ciudad Juárez, Conference The Public/Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: A Regional approach. Mexico City, 2013. NORTHEAST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION NPSA State power, criminal competition and violence, Boston, 2012. EL COLEGIO DE MEXICO, Presentations about youth and violence in Ciudad Juárez and Medellín, Coloquio Las violencias que afectan a los jóvenes en América Latina, 2012. UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, Narcotráfico y violencia en Colombia y Mexico, Conference Nuevas perspectivas sobre la violencia en Colombia, 2012. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Drugs, crime, and violence: Redefining the link and rethinking policy alternatives, Conference Drug wars in the Americas: Looking back and thinking ahead, 2012. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, The Drug War in Mexico: Beyond money and munitions, EPIIC Symposium 2012. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF DRUG POLICY ISSDP Annual Conference, Silent traffickers or brutal Criminals?: Drug violence in Colombian and Mexican cities, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2011. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Narcotics-associated violence in Mexican and Colombian cities: A comparison, Conference Narcotic Wars At the Border, 2011. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Watson Institute for International Studies and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Drug violence in three Mexican cities, Conference Violent cities in the Global South, 2011. 4
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, Transborder Institute, Drugs, violence and state sponsored protection rackets in Mexico, Conference Drug Trafficking-Related Violence in Mexico, 2010. BROWN UNIVERSITY, The colombianization of Mexico: Setting appropriate terms of debate, Conference Violence in Mexico: Beyond Sensationalism, 2009. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, Does illegality breed violence? Drug trafficking and State Sponsored Protection Rackets, Conference Drug Trafficking, Violence and Instability in Mexico, Colombia and the Caribbean, 2009. LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION LASA, Rio de Janeiro, 2009 MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MPSA, Partisan clues: the role of political parties in Latin American referenda, Chicago, 2009. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION APSA, The context matters: Recent experiences with referendums and democratic consolidation in Latin America, with Patricio Navia Chicago, 2007. UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT, Presentation at the brainstorming session the impact of organized crime on democratic governance in Central America and the Caribbean, New York 2007. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION APSA, Do plebiscites foster democratic institutions and accountability?" With Patricio Navia, Philadelphia, 2006. MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MPSA,"Do plebiscites foster democratic institutions and accountability?" With Patricio Navia, Chicago, 2006. Work and Research experience WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, BROWN UNIVERSITY, Co-Managing Editor, Journal Studies in Comparative International Development SCID, 2009-2010 and Summers 2012, 2013. UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME (UNODC), Consultant, Report The impact of Drug trafficking in the Americas, 2008. GLOBAL INTEGRITY. Lead Researcher for Colombia, Global Integrity Report 2007, 2008, 2009. UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Consultant, elaboration of program document on human security in Trinidad and Tobago, 2007. UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT, Department of Political Affairs, Americas and Europe Division. Associate Political Affairs Officer (P2) (Jan. 2007) UN-Fulbright Fellow, Researcher for the project The impact of organized crime in democratic governance in Latin America. (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago), New York, 2006. UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT. Department of Political Affairs. Division for the East and the Pacific Iraq Team, Intern, New York, 2006 5
Department of Public Information, Intern, New York, 2006. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA- IEPRI, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Research Associate and Program Manager, Bogotá, 2000-2004. FUNDACION IDEAS PARA LA PAZ, Research Associate, Bogotá, 2002-2004. UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-LSE, Research Associate, Bogotá, 2001-2002. IEPRI COLCIENCIAS (Colombian Institute for the Sciences) Research Associate, Bogotá, 2000-2001. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Division for Socio Juridical Research. UNIJUS, Research Assistant, Bogotá, 1999-2000. FUNDACION NEXOS MUNICIPALES (NGO), Communications Coordinator and Program Manager. Bogotá, 1998-2000. Service and other activities Discussant Conference Legacies of Political Violence in Contemporary Peru Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2014 Discussant Conference Subnational Research in Comparative Politics Harvard University, 2014 Member of Editorial Collective of the Journal Studies in Comparative International Development (As of September 2013) Discussant panel The publics of violence in Latin America LASA 2013 Reviewer for Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of elections, public opinion, and parties; América Latina Hoy; Colombia Internacional; Revista de Ciencia Política Universidad Nacional de Colombia Co-organizer conference on Drug trafficking in the Americas: Looking back and thinking ahead Brown University 2012. Co-organizer conference on Violence in Mexico: Beyond media sensationalism, Brown University, 2009 Member of Graduate Student Council, Center for Latin American Studies, Brown University, 2007-2009. FULBRIGHT COMMISSION. COLOMBIA. Member of the selection committee for 2006 and 2013 Fulbright Grantees in the area of Political Science. 2005, 2012. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES. Member of the research Group Conflict and institutions in a comparative perspective. 6