Casey Love

Casey Love is a Senior Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science and the Co-Director of the Altman Program in International Studies and Business. She arrived at Tulane in 1993 and has been here ever since. She received her B.A. from Tulane in Latin American Studies and Political Science in 1997, her M.A. in Latin American Studies in 2000, and her doctorate in Political Science in 2005. Her scholarly and teaching interests include Mexican politics, U.S.-Latin American relations, immigration policy, and democracy in the developing world. She integrates service learning into most of her courses, and she oversees the Political Science Department’s public service internship program and senior capstone experience. She has extensive experience working, conducting research, and teaching abroad. She worked at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, completed her doctoral research in Mexico, and has directed study abroad programs in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Vietnam (beginning in 2016). In addition to her academic pursuits, Dr. Love is an Iyengar yoga instructor, a founding member of an all-female Mardi Gras performance troupe, and the mother of two young boys.