Javier Osorio

Javier Osorio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY). He specializes in Comparative Politics with a focus on Latin America, particularly studying political and criminal violence in Mexico, Colombia, and Central America.

• Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame

His research examines the causes and consequences of large-scale criminal violence, utilizing automated textual annotation tools like Eventus ID (co-developed by him) to analyze Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian texts. Methodologically, he integrates natural language processing, geographic information systems, statistical analysis, and survey experiments.

His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council-Open Society Foundations, United States Institute of Peace, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

• Received UNODC and INEGI's best doctoral dissertation award in Latin American Public Safety
• Completed pre-doctoral fellowship at Yale University
• Completed post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell University