She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. She is also a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy. Teague earned her Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University in 2018.

Born in Colon, Panama, she travelled the world as part of a military family and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2006 to 2014. She teaches classes on U.S. history and relations with Latin America and serves as faculty coordinator for the Latin America concentration. She coordinates The Other Side of the Border: Ties that Bind and Issues that Divide,” a speaker series highlighting practitioner perspectives on Latin America. Her book, Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000 is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.