Gabriela Hoberman, Ph.D.

Bio

Dr. Gabriela Hoberman is the Director of Academic Programs at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) and the Faculty Director of LACC’s Study Abroad Program on Society, Politics & International Relations in Argentina.

Dr. Hoberman is a political scientist and researcher in the field of disasters in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Her areas of expertise are comparative politics, disaster risk policy, genocide studies, and Latin American politics. Her research interests include public policy, governance, and accountability. She teaches comparative politics courses in the Department of Politics and International Relations, the Master of Arts in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Master of Arts in Global Affairs; and is affiliated scholar at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, collaborating in a series of initiatives on public policy and global security. From 2014 to 2022 she was the Assistant Director of FIU’s DRRA-Extreme Events Institute, advancing training of faculty and practitioners to help address the driving forces of disaster risk in the LAC region.

Dr. Hoberman earned her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in political science from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. Her co-authored articles have appeared in journals such as Disaster Prevention and Management, Natural Hazards Review, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Natural Hazards, International Studies Perspectives and Environmental Hazards.