Lina Britto

Lina Britto is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, specializing in modern Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research examines drug smuggling networks in Colombia and their intersections with U.S. Cold War policies. She co-edited two interdisciplinary volumes on Colombian history (Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity, 2024), and authored Marijuana Boom (2020), which received an honor from Colombia's National Book Awards. Affiliated with Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Science in Human Culture programs, Britto also contributes to Colombia’s Historical Commission of the Armed Conflict.

Her teaching spans courses on drug history, Latin American contemporary history, and oral history. Research interests include transnational drug networks, Cold War dynamics, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Current projects explore transnational marijuana trafficking linking Colombia, Jamaica, and Florida in the 1970s-80s.