The Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, recently launched the Corruption, Networks, and Transnational Crime Research Center (CONTRA). The new research hub aims to advance how transnational crime can be understood and studied by combining deep empirical insights with sophisticated and diverse methodological approaches.
Three women professors will serve as CONTRA’s co-directors.
has taught in the Schar School of Policy and Government since 2017. She achieved the rank of full professor in 2022. Dr. Correa-Cabrera’s research on migration, borderlands, networks, and criminal organizations has significantly advanced the understanding of the interactions between human smuggling, organized crime, and state power. Her most recent…..