TraCCC Co-Directors
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are border studies, U.S.-Mexico relations, international security, migration studies and illicit networks. Within the area of migration studies, she is particularly interested in the phenomena of human smuggling and trafficking of migrants. She is a very well-known scholar in these areas and has published extensively about US bound migration, US immigration and security policy, illicit markets and networks.
Naoru Koizumi is Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair and Associate Dean of Research & Grants in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She specializes in medical policies, particularly in the fields of organ transplantation and the end-stage kidney and liver diseases.
Janine R. Wedel is an award-winning author who writes about Elite Influence, Power Networks, Shadow Elites, and Weaponized Corruption in the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine—-all through the lens of a social anthropologist. Her books include the forthcoming Elite Influence: Everything You Need to Know (Oxford); and the widely and favorably reviewed Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt Our Finances, Freedom, and Security (Pegasus, updated 2016); Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market (Basic Books, 2009); and Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe (Palgrave 2001). She has written for more than a dozen major news outlets, including the New York Times and Financial Times and received awards from the National Science Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and Carnegie Corporation of New York, among many others.
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