She joined the Department in July 2013, after completing her PhD at Yale University. She studies comparative politics, with interests in crime, violence, civil wars, policing, and informal institutions. Her current book project explores the ways that ordinary people understand and provide for their own security. The book draws on extensive field research in Guatemala, where Regina argues that local experiences during the civil war explain variation in postwar systems of vigilantism and social control. In a separate research agenda, she is also investigating how violence and trauma affect political behavior. Regina's work has twice been recognized by the American Political Science Association: in 2014 she won the Gabriel...