Louise Isobel Shelley (born 1952) is a University professor and Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair at the
Schar School of Policy and International Affairs at
George Mason University
George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...
in Virginia. She is also founder and executive director of the
Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC).
Before joining the George Mason University in 2007, she was professor at the
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...
since 1986.
Shelley's most recent book, ''Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future'' was published by Princeton University Press in 2018. She also published ''Dirty Entanglements: Crime, Corruption, and Terrorism'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014), ''Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010), ''Policing Soviet Society'' (Routledge, 1996), ''Lawyers in Soviet Worklife'' and ''Crime and Modernization'', as well as numerous articles and book chapters on all aspects of terrorism, transnational crime and corruption.
In 1975, she married the State Department analyst and Kremlinologist
Donald E. Graves, with whom she had two children
[Joseph Cress]
"Remembering Mr. X"
"The Sentinental", Carlisle, PA, 18 August 2008. Retrieved on 2016-12-02. before the marriage was dissolved.
Recent work
* (2018)
"Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future"
* (2014)
"Dirty Entanglements: Crime, Corruption, and Terrorism"
* (2010)
"Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective"
* (2009)
"Crime and Non-Punishment" ''dispatches''.
References
External links
*
Shelley's Websiteat George Madison University (with CV)
Bio at quarterly journal ''dispatches''
Living people
1952 births
George Mason University faculty
American women academics
American University faculty and staff
21st-century American women
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