Dinorah Azpuru is Professor of Political Science at Wichita State University (Kansas, USA). She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. She also received an MA in Political Science from the same university, and has an MA in Teaching and Research from Guatemala’s Catholic university, Rafael Landivar. She did additional graduate work in Switzerland and Sweden.

Her expertise is on democratization and democracy assistance to developing nations, survey research on Latin America, U.S.-Latin America relations and peace processes in Central America. More specifically, through the analysis of survey data, she studies public opinion about democracy, democratic values and behavior (for example, voting behavior).

She teaches courses on democracy, comparative politics, Latin American politics, and political data analysis. Before coming to WSU she was visiting professor and research coordinator of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University. She continues her involvement with the LAPOP project as expert advisor of the Guatemala Program.