Jenny Guardado Rodriguez
School of Foreign Service
Jenny Guardado is an assistant professor in the Center for Latin American Studies in the School of Foreign Service. She joined the Georgetown faculty in 2015 and was a member of the Latin America Initiative Faculty Committee (2016-2017). Her research examines the political and economic mechanisms affecting armed conflict, corruption and economic development.
International activities include:
- Author of several research papers examining the political and economic mechanisms affecting armed conflict, corruption, and economic development
- Her work is currently published or forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Politics, World Development, and International Studies Quarterly, among others
- Recipient of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper, for her dissertation “Office-selling, Corruption, and Long-term Development in Peru,” presented at MPSA in 2013
- Awarded the Oliver A. Williamson prize for best paper presented at the International Society for New Institutional Economics Conference in 2014 for her work on land tenure in Peru
- Visited the Department of Politics at Princeton University during the Fall 2019
