Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley
M.A., Univ. of California, Berkeley
B.A., Univ. de San Andres, Argentina
Hernán Flom holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on Comparative and Latin American Politics. His main research interests are criminal markets and state violence in Latin America. His first book, The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America, analyzes how states informally regulate drug trafficking in Latin American metropolitan areas. His work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Governance, Journal of Urban Affairs, Latin American Politics and Society, and Comparative Politics. Before arriving at Trinity, he was selected as a Visiting Fellow by the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame and worked as a Coordinator in the National Ministry of Security in Argentina. He believes in a dynamic and interactive learning experience, which engages students with real-world problems and uses alternative teaching methods to gauge students’ interests.
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Criminal violence and illicit markets
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Policing and criminal justice policies
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Latin America politics
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Comparative politics
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Comparative public policies
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Research methods
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Latin American politics
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Organized crime and criminal violence
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Criminal justice policies in Latin America
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States and institutions in developing democracies
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Book:
- The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Peer-reviewed articles:
- "Voting with their guns: an integrated framework of how police politically administer violence,” Perspectives on Politics, 1-16, 2024.
- “The politics of police accountability: police expulsions in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina,” Governance 37(2): 453-473, 2023.
- “The politics of police violence: political competition and police killings in Brazil,” Journal of Urban Affairs, Special Issue on Police and Policing in the 21 st century, 2022.
- “Controlling bureaucracies in weak institutional contexts: The politics of police autonomy in Latin America.” Governance, 1-18, 2019.
- “State regulation of organized crime: Politicians, police, and drug trafficking in Argentina.” Latin American Politics and Society, 61:3, 104-128, 2019.
- “Who protects whom? Politicians, police and the regulation of drug trafficking in Argentina.” Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper Series #426, January 2018.
- Blame avoidance and policy stability in developing democracies: The politics of public security in Buenos Aires”, Comparative Politics, 49:1, 23-46, October 2016 (with Alison Post)
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- American Political Science Association Centennial Research Grant, 2023
- Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College, 2022-24.
- Community Learning Faculty Fellow, Trinity College, 2021.
- Research Completion Grant, Trinity College, 2021.
- Travel Grant, Latin American Studies Association, 2017.
- Travel Grant, American Political Science Association, 2016.
- Herbert York Fellowship, Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego, 2014.
- John L. Simpson Memorial Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2014.
- Fulbright Master-Ph.D. Fellowship, Fulbright Commission in Argentina, 2010.
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