Ana Arjona

I am an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department  at Northwestern University. I am also co-editor-in-chief of the journal Perspectives on Politics and Founding Director of REDESDAL (Network of Studies on Drugs in Latin America).  My research focuses on the interplay between violence, governance, and individual behavior. I ask how institutions and individual choice change in violent settings, and how these dynamics continue to influence politics and development after the violence ends.   I study these questions with quantitative and qualitative methods, mostly in Latin America.

Drawings by Sergio Trujillo Magnenat