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Louise
I. Shelley
Professor of Public Policy lshelley@gmu.edu George Mason School of Public Policy 3401 Fairfax Drive - MS 3B1 Arlington, VA 22201 EDUCATION Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Sociology (1977) Criminal Law Department, Moscow State University (1974-75) Columbia University, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship used to study in the Sociology Department, Law School and the Russian Institute (1973-74) M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Criminology (1973) B.A., Cum Laude, Cornell University, Penology and Russian Literature (1972) BIOGRAPHY Dr. Louise Shelley joined the School of Public Policy in August 2007. Previously, she was a Professor in the School of International Service and also in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University. Dr. Shelley is the founder and Director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) that moved with her from American University. She is a leading expert on transnational crime and terrorism with a particular focus on the former Soviet Union. Dr. Shelley received her undergraduate degree cum laude from Cornell University in Penology and Russian literature. She holds an M.A. in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. She studied at the Law Faculty of Moscow State University on IREX and Fulbright Fellowships and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim, NEH, IREX, Kennan Institute, and Fulbright Fellowships and received a MacArthur Grant to establish the Russian Organized Crime Study Centers. In 1992, she received the Scholar-Teacher prize of American University, the top academic award of the university. Dr. Shelley is the author of 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 transnational crime and corruption. She is also an editor (with Sally Stoecker) of Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives. She serves on the boards of Demokratizatsiya: the Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, and the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Global Crime and The International Annals of Criminology. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology for the years 1999-2004. Her expertise in transnational crime and corruption includes money laundering and illicit financial flows, human smuggling and trafficking and national security issues. Since 1995, Dr. Shelley has run programs in Russia and Georgia with leading specialists on the problems of organized crime and corruption. She has also been the principal investigator of large-scale projects on money laundering from Russia, Ukraine and Georgia and of training of law enforcement persons on the issue of trafficking in persons. She has testified before the House Committee on International Relations Committee, the Helsinki Commission, the House Banking Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on transnational crime, human trafficking and the links between transnational crime, financial crime and terrorism. She has spoken at various international fora and at many universities both in the United States and abroad on transnational crime and corruption. Additionally, she appears on television and radio, including appearances on CNN, NPR's Marketplace, PBS, A&E, the History Channel and 60 Minutes. AREAS OF EXPERTISE |
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