WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LUPITA CABRERTA? NOW IN D.C.

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

One of our favorite scholars hands down has to be Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, who was a researcher and instructor at UT-Brownsville a few years ago.

Lupita, as her students and colleagues called her, is now an (Ph.D. in Political Science, The New School for Social Research)  Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University.

While heere, she encouraged young up-and-coming researchers and mentored many of them to raise their expectations and seek  higher level of scholarship.

Her areas of expertise are Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, and human trafficking. 

Her newest book is titled Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017). 

She was recently the principal investigator of a research grant to study organized crime and trafficking in persons in Central America and along Mexico’s eastern migration routes, supported by the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. 

She is now working on a new book project that analyzes all aspects of Mexican irregular immigration in the United States entitled Mexican “Illegal” Immigration in the U.S.: A Human Problem. 

Dr. Correa-Cabrera is currently the President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS). She is also Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Non-resident Scholar at the Baker Institute’s Mexico Center (Rice University).

You go, girl!