About

Luicia Tiscornia is an assistant professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and a Fellow with the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. She is an external research affiliate of the Kellogg Institute's Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab (V-TJLab).   Previously, Tiscornia was an assistant professor in the Division of International Studies at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, and a Fellow with the  Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT).   

She is the co-author of Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Deters Criminal Wars in New Democracies (with Guillermo Trejo and Juan Albarracín), published by Cambridge University Press in March 2026. Her research has appeared in leading journals, including International Organization, Journal of Peace Research, Sociological Methods & Research, and Studies in Comparative International Development.

Tiscornia is a former PhD Fellow and dissertation year fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where she organized a 2018 workshop on Women Studying Violence. She received the 2018 Kellogg Institute Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions, which recognizes a doctoral student affiliate for outstanding contributions to the intellectual life of the Institute.

In 2025, Tiscornia received a €1.5 million European Research Council Starting Grant to study the emergence of criminal governance in unexpected contexts, featuring extensive fieldwork across Argentina, Costa Rica, and Chile. Her work has received additional support from the National Agency for Research and Innovation in Uruguay, Evidence in Governance and Politics, Notre Dame Global, USAID’s Research and Innovation Fellowship Program, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Tiscornia holds an MA in peace studies and a PhD in political science from Notre Dame.

PhD Year
2019
Current Research

Focuses on criminal violence, conflict termination, and security sector reform

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Selected Publications

Books

Journal Articles

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

2017-18 Kellogg Institute Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions

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May 27 to 28, 2021
Kellogg Reunión 2021
Special Event
Juan Guillermo Albarracín Dierolf, Edward (Ted) Beatty, Abby Córdova, Tomás Gold, Karen B. Graubart, Magdalena López, Vanesa Miseres, Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams, Jaime M. Pensado, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Ann Mische, Lucia Tiscornia, Guillermo Trejo