Aileen Teague is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs. A U.S. diplomatic historian specializing in U.S.–Latin American relations, Mexico, and the drug trade, she previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Currently, Teague is a Fellow with both the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran (2006–2014) and a dual citizen of Panama and the United States, she is the author of Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969–2000 (Oxford University Press, 2025), an examination of the effects of U.S. supply-side drug control policies inside Mexico and their connections to Mexican political violence and domestic debates about drugs in the United States. Her second book project, Undoing Intervention: The Canal, the Panamanians, and the Transfer, 1979–2000, explores the political and diplomatic dynamics surrounding the return of the Panama Canal following the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties. Teague's scholarship has appeared in journals including Diplomatic History, the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, and The Latin Americanist. Her research has been supported by 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 was a Predoctoral Fellow. Teague's commentary has been published in outlets including Time and The Washington Post. She teaches courses on U.S. diplomatic history, relations with Latin America, and the illicit economy. Teague serves as faculty coordinator for the Latin America concentration and leads The Other Side of the Border: Ties that Bind and Issues that Divide, a speaker series organized with the Mosbacher Institute, featuring academic and practitioner perspectives on contemporary issues in the region.
