Dr. Aileen Teague is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. She is also a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy. Teague earned her Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University in 2018. Born in Colon, Panama, she travelled the world as part of a military family and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2006 to 2014. She teaches classes on U.S. history and relations with Latin America and serves as faculty coordinator for the Latin America concentration. She coordinates The Other Side of the Border: Ties that Bind and Issues that Divide,” a speaker series highlighting practitioner perspectives on Latin America. Her book, Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000 is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. The project examines the effects of United States drug policies and policing efforts on Mexican politics and society. The study incorporates a transnational approach, using archival sources from Mexico and the United States, to explore the origins of bilateral drug enforcement measures and their relationship to Mexican political violence and U.S. domestic drug issues. The book also sheds new light on how local histories of political instability shaped the Mexican government’s response to the U.S. war on drugs. Teague’s work has been published in journals including Diplomatic History and the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Her research has received support from organizations including Fulbright (García Robles), the American Historical Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where she served as a visiting fellow. Her opinion pieces have appeared in venues including Time and The Washington Post
