Korbel ranked 12th best place in the world to earn a master’s degree in international relations.
Korbel ranked 20th in the world for the best undergraduate degree in international studies.
Korbel ranked 12th best place in the world to earn a master’s degree in international relations.
Korbel ranked 20th in the world for the best undergraduate degree in international studies.
Teaching Professor
Degree Director, International Studies
Lynn Holland is a teaching professor and director of the MA International Studies degree program at the Korbel School. She has written on environmental activism, land rights issues, and democratic development related to metal mining in rural communities in Mexico, Central America, and Peru. She has also written on drug trafficking and immigration policy in the U.S. and has taken students to Chiapas to study the social and environmental impacts of development policy there. Her courses include International Political Economy, Political Economy of Latin America, Democracy and Militarism in Latin America, and Illicit Markets in the Americas.
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International Studies
The Struggle for Sovereignty in Honduras, Francisco Rodriguez (Ed), The Elgar Companion to the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming)
Mining in Mexico and the Land Defenders Movement in Chiapas,Catherine Bernard (Ed), Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous Lands in the Americas, Ethics International Press, February 2024
Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in Peru, Ch. 8 in Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris, Rafael R. Ioris, and Sergei Shubin (Eds.), Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks and Resistances, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020
The Movement for Mining Restrictions in Three Central American Countries: Costa Rica in Comparison, Ch. 18 in Fletcher, R., Dowd-Uribe, B., & Aistara, G.AA. (Eds.), The Ecolaboratory: Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica, University of Arizona Press, 2020
Seeking Asylum in the USA from Honduras, Amigos de Honduras, Loren Hintz (Ed), Amigos de Honduras Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Group, Vol XL, No. 4, November 2022
The So-called Failure of the State: Rethinking the State, Civil Society, and Criminal Organizations, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, May 2022
A Call to Suspend Military Aid to Honduras, The Clarion, op-ed, June 14, 2021
The DEA in Honduras: Targeting Corruption in High Places, Carnegie Ethics Online Monthly Column, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, June 12, 2019
New Extractivismâ in Mexico: Hope and Deception, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2018)
Faculty Service Award, One of DU's Outstanding Faculty Members Based on Excellence in Service Within the University, May 2024
Faculty Service Award, One of DU's Outstanding Faculty Members Based on Excellence in Service Within the University, DU's first annual Faculty Service Celebration Dinner, June 9, 2022
DU Faculty Career Champion nominee, student career and professional development support, September 2018, September 2019, September 2020
Outstanding Teaching, one of DU's Most Outstanding Faculty Members Contributing to Impactful Teaching, Provost's Annual Teaching Celebration, University of Denver, April 2019
John Proctor Member of the Year Award, outstanding volunteer work in promoting justice and peace, Denver Justice and Peace Committee (DJPC), 2015
Josef Korbel School of International Studies Student Association Awards, Most Accessible Professor and Most Representative of Korbel Values, May 2015
Ruth Murray Underhill Teaching Award, excellence in teaching by an adjunct faculty member, University of Denver, 2011
International Political Economy
Political Economy of Latin America
Democracy and Militarism in Latin America
Illicit Markets in the Americas
Ph.D., Political Science (International Relations & Comparative Politics), University of California, Los Angeles
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