Prof. Denise Garcia

Denise Garcia joined Northeastern University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the International Affairs Program in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2006. Prior to coming to Northeastern University, she was a researcher at Harvard University's Intrastate Conflict and International Security Programs at the Kennedy School of Government for three years, and taught seminars at Harvard's Department of Government of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Garcia remains affiliated with Harvard's Intrastate Conflict Program Ibrahim Index of African Governance. Her book, at the intersection of international security and international law, Small Arms and Security: New Emerging International Norms by Routledge, examines how new international norms develop to deal with illicit arms trafficking worldwide.

Previously, Garcia held positions at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs of the University of Geneva, the World Council of Churches' Peace Building and Disarmament Program, the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross. She was the founder of the International Protection of Human Rights Center at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. During that time, she also attended the Interamerican Human Rights Institute in Costa Rica and its Court of Human Rights sessions as well as those in the European system of human rights in Strasbourg France, the International Law Department of the University of Seville, and the European Peace University in Austria. She teaches a course on "Disarmament Diplomacy and Humanitarian Action" every summer in Geneva, in the context of NU's Dialogues of Civilization.

She lives on Boston's north shore with her husband and they love to travel for snorkeling and diving around the world.