Biography

Beatrice Jauregui

Beatrice Jauregui is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (CrimSL), and Chair of the Advisory Committee for the CrimSLResearch Cluster for the Study of Racism and Inequality. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Global Policing (Sage 2016) and Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (University of Chicago 2010).

Her monograph Provisional Authority (University of Chicago 2016) is an ethnography of everyday police work and life in northern India. Dr Jauregui has also authored numerous chapter contributions and research articles published in peer reviewed journals including American Ethnologist, Asian Policing, Comparative Policing, Conflict and Society, Journal of South Asian Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, Public Culture, Qualitative Sociology, and Security Dialogue.

Her ongoing research program studies cultural and historical transformations of security actors and institutions, most recently in self-administered policing practices in Indigenous communities. She is currently Principal Investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant funded project comparing forms of political organizing by police, identity-based and labor-oriented police associations, and police governance and politics across South Asia, Latin America, and Turtle Island/North America.