About
H. Richard Friman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was formerly Eliot Fitch Professor for International Studies, Professor of Political Science, Founder and Director of the Center for Transnational Justice, Chair of the Department of Political Science, and Inaugural Director of the International Affairs Major all at Marquette University. He has been a visiting research scholar at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Penal Law, and JUSEC Fulbright scholar at Japan’s National Research Institute of Police Science.
Professor Friman has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy, international politics, the illicit global economy, the politics of drug control, and human trafficking. His current research focuses on the intersection of the licit and illicit global economies with specific projects on the politics of (im)migration and crime, smuggling (drugs, arms, bulk cash) out of advanced industrial countries, Jesuit mission funding networks, approaches to citizen and noncitizen human trafficking, and the intersection of state, society, and organized crime.
He is the author, editor, or co-editor of eight books including The Politics of Leverage in International Relations: Name, Shame, and Sanction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 2017), the author of numerous book chapters, and has published in journals including Crime, Law and Social Change, International Organization, Journal of Policy History, The Catholic Historical Review, and The Review of International Political Economy. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Human Trafficking.
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