Aileen Teague

Teague is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service. A former Marine Corps officer, 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. Teague earned her Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University in 2018. 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). The book explores the effects of U.S. supply control policies in Mexico and their relationship to Mexican political violence and American domestic drug issues. Her second book project, Undoing Intervention: The Canal, the Panamanians, and the Transfer, 1979-2000, examines America’s turnover of the famed waterway to the Panamanians following the Panama Canal Treaties, signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian head of state, Omar Torrijos, in 1977. 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. Her op-eds have appeared in venues including The Washington Post.