Beatrice Jauregui

Professor Jauregui’s research addresses how governance and security institutions and actors reflect and shape dynamics of social order and state power. Her monograph Provisional Authority: Police, Order, and Security in India (University of Chicago 2016) is an ethnography of everyday police practices in northern India. She is co-editor of Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (University of Chicago 2010) and The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing (Sage 2016), and author of numerous chapter contributions and research articles published in American Ethnologist, Asian Policing, Conflict and Society, Journal of South Asian Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, Public Culture, Qualitative Sociology, and Security Dialogue.

Professor Jauregui is currently Principal Investigator on the SSHRC Insight Grant funded project “Police Unions, Democratic Transformation, and Social Justice,” a comparative transnational study of organized policing, identity and labor oriented police associations, and police governance and politics in South Asia, Latin America, and Turtle Island/North America.