Dr. Tony Payán
Featured Speaker on September 29, 2021, 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.
"Governing our Binational Commons: Insitutional Development at the U.S.-Mexico Border"
Tony Payán, Ph.D., is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and Director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is also a professor of social sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Between 2001 and 2015, Payán was a professor of political science at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Payán’s research focuses primarily on border studies, particularly the U.S.-Mexico border. His work centers largely on borderlands issues as areas of habitation, including the various conditions that affect life in liminal spaces. This includes cross-border flows, both legal and illegal, of people and contraband, as well as border governance. He also researches problems affecting the U.S.-Mexico r relationship.
Payán earned a B.A. in philosophy and classical languages from the University of Dallas and an MBA from the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management. He received a doctorate degree in international relations from Georgetown University in 2001. For Dr. Payán's complete bio, consult https://www.bakerinstitute.org/experts/tony-payan/
Co-sponsors: C-BED and the Center for Latin American and Border Studies.
