Name: Elana Zilberg
Assistant Professor, Communications
Ph.D., University of Austin, Texas, 2002

Field of Expertise: Zilberg research interests include global flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas between the U.S. and Central America.

Region of Interest: Central America, El Salvador

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Selected Publications:
"Gangster in Guerilla Face: The Political Folklore of Doble Cara in Post-Civil War El Salvador ," in Anthropological Theory . (Forthcoming).

"Refugee Gang Youth: Zero Tolerance and the Security State in Contemporary US-Salvadoran Relations, " in Youth, Law and Globalization , Sudhir Venkatesh, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Forthcoming).

"Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)." American Quarterly, Volume 56, Number 3, Special Issue: Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, Guest Editors: Raúl Homero Villa and George J. Sánchez (September 2004).