Main Seminar: STATE FOR HIRE: Corporate-State Security Contracts in Extractive Zones

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Jamie L. Shenk, University of Warwick

Jamie L. Shenk is a political sociologist interested in the intersection of armed conflict, democratic governance, social movements, and environmental politics with a regional focus on Latin America. She is currently an Honorary Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwick, where she was previously an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Before joining Warwick, she was a Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She holds a PhD (DPhil) in Sociology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Latin American Studies from the same university.  Her academic research has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Politics, Journal of Peace Research, and Latin American Research Review, among other outlets, and her commentary has been featured in outlets such as Americas Quarterly, Democracy Paradox, and Fair Observer.