CEC at Rancho Bernardo

A Fitness Center for the Mind

David Shirk, Ph.D.

Dr. David A. Shirk is Director of the Trans-Border Institute (http://www.sandiego.edu/tbi) and Assistant Professor in tshirkhe Department of Political Science at the University of San Diego.  He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and was a fellow at the UCSD Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies from 1998-99 and 2001-2003.  He conducts research on Mexican politics, U.S.-Mexican relations and a variety of policy issues along the U.S.-Mexican border.  As TBI Director, Dr. Shirk also directs the Justice in Mexico Project (www.justiceinmexico.org), a bi-national initiative involving scholars and experts conducting research on criminal justice and the rule of law in Mexico.  He is the author of Mexico’s New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change and co-editor of Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico.