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José Alberto González Aranda

Strauss Center Brumley/ISP Student Research Fellow

José Alberto González Aranda is a second-year Master of Global Policy Studies student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Having been raised amid a drug war, José Alberto is interested in Security, Law, and Diplomacy and has specialized in Mexican drug cartels. Prior to coming to UT, José Alberto departed his hometown of Tampico, Mexico, earning a BA in History and Political Science, with minors in Economics and Public Policy, from New York University. For most of his graduate studies, José Alberto was at NYU’s campus in Abu Dhabi, but spent a semester in New York and some time in Washington, DC and Ukraine. José Alberto worked for over two years as a Script Director at The Armchair Historian, a company that produces animated documentaries and video games about both historical and modern geopolitical conflicts. While in college he also interned at the Mexican embassy in Abu Dhabi, working under the administrator, but also rotated around the chancellery and the consular section. At NYU, José Alberto collaborated with a variety of professors on issues ranging from COVID-19 to US Civil War memorialization to fiscal policy in modern democracies. As a Brumley Fellow, José is working with Intelligence Studies Project Non-Resident Senior Fellow Tim Langford.