Shannon Drysdale Walsh Bio

Shannon Drysdale Walsh is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2011. She is currently working on a book manuscript "Engendering State Institutions: State Response to Violence against Women in Latin America," which explains the development and variation in practices within specialized justice system institutions (police units and courts) that address violence against women in Latin America. She also produces scholarship on the impacts of women's representation, explaining patterns of crime and victimization in Latin America, and sex trafficking in the United States. She has lived and conducted fieldwork in Central America for over 18 months, primarily in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Her research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.