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Eugenio Weigend
Eugenio Weigend Vargas
Research Fellow, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, University of Michigan (website)
email: eweigend [at] umich [dot] edu 
twitter: @eugenioweigend


Small arms and light weapons (SALW) | Latin America | arms trafficking 

Eugenio Weigend Vargas is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan's Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. His research has focused on preventing arms trafficking and gun violence in the United States and Mexico. 

Weigend has provided testimonies before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights as well as the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Firearms Trafficking in the Americas and has been invited to speak at conferences at Oxford University, Georgetown University, Washington University, Colegio de Mexico, and Universidad Autonoma Nacional de México.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Weigend was the research director for gun violence prevention at the Center for American Progress, where he published numerous articles, books, reports, fact sheets, and issue briefs advocating for measures that strengthen gun laws in the United States at the state and federal levels.

Weigend has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University and the University of Texas in El Paso. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs from Brown University and a doctorate from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Recent Publications
  • "Examining a Dataset on Gun Shows in the US, 2011–2019," Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 4(1), September 28, 2022.
  • "Gun Suicides Among Former and Current Military Members," Center for American Progress, March 3, 2022.*
  • "Las balas que no matan: el elefante en la habitación," Nexos, February 15, 2022.*
  • "Non-fatal gunshot injuries during criminal acts in Mexico, 2013–2019," Injury Prevention, December 9, 2021.*
  • "A New Lawsuit Illustrates the Problem of U.S. Guns in Mexico," Center for American Progress, September 2,  2021.*
  • "Luces y sombras de la demanda mexicana contra las armerías estadunidenses," nexos, August 16, 2021.*
  • "¿Quiénes y por qué adquieren armas en México?," Chronica, July 14, 2021.*
  • "Emotional and physical symptoms after gun victimization in the United States, 2009-2019," Preventative Medicine, February 2021.
  • “Gun Trafficking and Violence: From The Global Network to The Local Security Challenge," multiple editors and authors, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 
  • “Gun Acquisition in Mexico 2012-2018: findings from Mexico’s National Crime Victimization Survey,” with ​Carlos Pérez Ricart, British Journal of Criminology, 2021.
  • "The Gun Industry in America: The Overlooked Player in a National Crisis," Center for American Progress, August 6, 2020.*
  • "Firearms and Injuries during Home Robberies in Mexico, 2010–2017," Trends in Organized Crime, April 1, 2020.*

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