Gema Kloppe-Santamaría

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría is a Nicaraguan-born sociologist and historian specializing in violence, religion, and gender in Mexico and Central America. She is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University College Cork (UCC) and an Associate Research Professor of Latin American History at the George Washington University (GW). Her book, In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press, 2020), examines the uncharted history of lynching during the formative decades of the post-revolutionary period (1930-1960). She is also the lead editor of the books Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017) and Human Security and Chronic Violence in Mexico: New Perspectives and Proposals from Below (Editorial Porrúa, 2019). Her work has received several accolades, including a 2020 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award, 2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award, and a 2021-2022 Marie Curie Junior Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS).