Verónica Zubillaga is a Visiting Research Professor and Richard E. Greenleaf Scholar-in-Residence in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University. She was a professor at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas.  For the past twenty years, her ethnographic research has been focused on urban armed violence in Latin America, particularly in her hometown of Caracas.  Her publications include the co-edited book: The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela (the University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022) with David Smilde and Rebecca Hanson.  Her work has been disseminated in several academic journals, including Critical Criminology, Latin American Research Review LARR), Cahiers des Amériques Latines, Violence: An International Journal, Political Geography, Crime, Law and Social Change, and Revista Mexicana de Sociología. She has been a Visiting Professor at CLACS – Brown University, a Visiting Scholar at  Harvard University, Notre Dame University, and a Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is currently a Mellon Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Jiménez Maryhen, Hanson Rebecca and Verónica Zubillaga. 2026. “La democracia no llegará por ‘delivery’: imaginando un futuro distinto para Venezuela”, In: El País, January 13th, 2026. 

Hanson, Rebecca; Smilde, David and Verónica Zubillaga. 2025. “This Is Not the Right Way to Curb Migration”. In: The New York Times, April 4, 2025. 

Zubillaga, Verónica, Rebecca Hanson, and Francisco Sánchez. 2025. “Criminal Governance in Times of Post-Chávez Revolution and Questioned Legitimacy”. In: Polga-Hecimovich, John and Sanchez-Urribarri, Raul. Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro. Routledge Smilde, David; Zubillaga Verónica and Hanson, Rebecca. 2022. (edited volume). The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela. University of Pittsburgh Press.