We are pleased to welcome Prof. Sabina Frederic from the Department of Social Sciences, University of Quilmes, UNQ-National Council of Scientific and Technic Research, CONICET in Argentina to Warwick Law School.

Prof. Frederic is a Visiting Fellow of the Warwick Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and will be based at Warwick Law School. Prof Frederic is Director of the PhD. in Social Sciences and Humanities, UNQ. Since 2022 she has co-coordinated the network on Police, Control Agencies and Illegal Markets of researchers Working Group of the Latin American College of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She drives innovative and comparative ethnographic work on security policies, policing and marginalized population, security and armed forces welfare and use of force, with a focus on ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ practices in the global south. She has specialized in knowledge transfer from social sciences to public policies in defence and security. Prof. Frederic holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Prof. Frederic has extensive policy and research experience in academia and the civil service in Argentina, including as former Minister of Security and undersecretary of Military Education. She has authored and edited publications on police and armed forces democratization and professionalization Las Trampas del Pasado. La integración de las Fuerzas Armadas al Estado democrático en Argentina (2013) [1]; security and armed forces transformations in the Post-welfare State, new threats and the rise of organized labor informality and illegalized markets La Gendarmería desde adentro. De centinelas de la patria al trabajo en barrios (2020) [2], Lo que el progresismo no ve, cuando aborda la seguridad (2024) [3], a significant contribution offering critical insights into Argentina’s security landscape.

Prof Frederic is partner of the University of Warwick’s International Partnership Fund (IPF) 2024-25 Project ‘Policing, militarization and the rise of authoritarian politics in the UK and Latin America’, led by Prof. Ana Aliverti. She has co-organised and will participate in the international workshop 'Policing, militarisation and the rise of authoritarian politics in the UK and Latin America', taking place 3rd-4th April, 2025 at the University of Warwick. As an IAS Visiting Fellow, Frederic will also be working on: a) security forces capabilities and resources for investigation and operative demands towards border policing, population control on the margins, and transnational organized crime, and b) local appropriation of global security doctrines based on new threats, and the growing and changing illegalized markets and informal labour.

Prof. Frederic will be based in S2.26 in the Social Sciences building. It is great to have you with us. Welcome to Warwick.