Photo: Rio de Janiero, Brazil, following her conference presentation at the Latin American Studies Association International Congress, 2009.

SHANNON DRYSDALE WALSH
Mellon / ACLS Fellow
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Duluth
Department of Political Science
1123 University Drive
304 Cina Hall
Duluth, MN 55812

(two one eight) 206-2426
shannondwalsh[at]gmail[dot]com

Shannon Drysdale Walsh earned her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2011. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a Mellon/ACLS(American Council of Learned Societies) Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Central America.

Her primary field of research 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, and explaining patterns of crime and victimization in Latin America.

Shannon Drysdale Walsh's research and teaching interests include comparative politics in Latin America, women and politics, institutions, comparative democratization, human rights, gender and public policy, and violence against women.

She holds an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Please see her curriculum vitae for additional information regarding her publications, awards, teaching, ongoing research, and involvement in the discipline.

I am currently collecting survey responses from experts on violence against women in Central America. Por llenar el cuestionario sobre violencia contra la mujer en Centroamérica:
Cuestionario online http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VCM
Cuestionario en PDF por imprimir