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Lina Britto holds a Ph.D. from New York University (2013) and specializes in modern Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on the intersection of drug history and regional dynamics within the context of U.S.-Latin American relations. Her work critically examines the emergence and consolidation of illegal drug smuggling networks in Colombia against the backdrop of the geopolitical tensions during the Cold War. Britto is the author of 'Marijuana Boom: Rise and Fall of Colombia's Drug Paradise' (University of California Press, 2020), which received an honorable mention at the Social Science Humanities Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar National Book Awards in Colombia in 2021. She has also co-edited interdisciplinary volumes that highlight research from over 40 scholars on Colombian history from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Currently, she is completing a monograph on American hippies and their connections with marijuana trafficking from Colombia to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on Latin American history, drug history, and the cultural intersections of music and nation building.
Standard PhD requirements for TGS departments including Chemistry, Physics, and Sociology.