Room 5419
The Graduate Center
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New York, New York 10016
(212) 817-8438

clacls@gc.cuny.edu
Mark Ungar

Associate Professor Political Science, Brooklyn College Ph.D. Program in Criminal Justice, Graduate Center

MUngar@brooklyn.cuny.edu

718-951-5058

2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11210-2889

Mark Ungar is Associate Professor of political science at Brooklyn College and on the faculty of the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program and the Liberal Arts Masters Program of the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written and edited several books, including Elusive Reform: Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin America (Lynne Rienner), as well as about 30 articles and book chapters on judicial reform, citizen security, and democracy. He has received grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, CUNY Research Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is the law section co-chair of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and directed a 2005 LASA project on prison conditions in Latin America. He also has been an advisor to the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras.