Claudia Elliott is associate director of the International Relations (IR) Program and senior lecturer in international studies. She is the concentration advisor for IR undergraduates and teaches in the IR Honors Program. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University. She received a dissertation fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program and was an electoral observer for the 1997, 2000, and 2006 elections in Mexico. Her work and research experience include the Americas Society (New York), University of Texas Press, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos "Rómulo Gallegos" (Caracas), Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo (CENDES, Universidad Central de Venezuela) and El Colégio de México (Mexico City). She has published Spanish to English translations of scholarly work and fiction. She has taught courses on comparative, U.S., and Latin American politics at Bryant University and Brown University.