Logan Puck
Dr. Puck is a Lecturer in International Affairs, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, and the Program Coordinator for the International Politics cohort of the Women's Leadership Program. His research focuses on public and private security in Mexico with an emphasis on the relationship between the state and the private security industry. His current project investigates hybrid police forces in Mexico and their impact on democracy.
Dr. Puck earned an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was also a Garcia-Robles Fulbright Scholar in Mexico. His research has been published in Latin American Politics and Society, Policing and Society, Democracy and Security, and Lua Nova.
Comparative Politics, Policing, Private Security, Democracy, Latin America, Mexico
Ph.D. in Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A. in Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in Political Science, Dickinson College
PSC 1001: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSC 2334: Global Perspectives on Democracy
PSC 2338: Nationalism
PSC 2933: Violence in Latin America
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Puck, Logan and Adam White. 2024. “Cultural and Symbolic Capital in the Market for Security: Police-Private Security Relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom,” Policing and Society, 34(1-2): 27-41
Puck, Logan. 2022. “The State in Private Security: Examining Mexico City’s Complementary Police,” Democracy and Security, 18(1): 1-25.
Puck, Logan. 2021. "A Failure to Impose Control: Private Security and the Mexican State," Lua Nova, 114.
Puck, Logan. 2017. “Uneasy Partners Against Crime: The Ambivalent Relationship between the Police and the Private Security Industry in Mexico,” Latin American Politics and Society, 59(1): 74-95
Book Chapters
Puck, Logan. 2023. “Incorporating Non-State Security Actors into Public Security: Mexico’s Failed Experiment,” in Handbook on Police and Private Security, ed. Erwin Blackstone, Simon Hakim, and Brian Meehan. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Puck, Logan. 2023. “Sí Ex-Militares, No Ex-Policías: Military Fetishism in Mexico’s Private Security Industry,” in Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America: Themes and Trends, ed. Carlos Solar and Carlos Perez-Ricart. New York: Routledge.
Puck, Logan. 2023. “Police, Private Security, and ‘Patitos’: The Market for Security in Mexico City,” in Policing the Global South: Colonial Legacies, Pluralities, Partnerships, and Reform, ed. Danielle Watson, Sara N. Amin, Wendell C. Wallace, Oluwagbenga (Michael) Akinlabi, and Juan Carlos Ruiz-Vásquez. New York: Routledge.
Book Reviews
Puck, Logan. 2023. Review of Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America, by Eduardo Moncada. Journal of Development Studies, 59(8): 1310-1311
Puck, Logan. 2023. Review of Tell Mother I’m in Paradise, by Ana Gasteazoro. Fulbright Chronicles, 2(1): 60-62.
Public Scholarship
Puck, Logan, 2024. “Military Fetishism in Mexico’s Private Security Industry,” Private Security Conversations (blog), The International Code of Conduct Association, June 19, https://blog.icoca.ch/military-fetishism-in-mexicos-private-security-in….