Faculty
| Name | Title | Research Areas | Core Areas |
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Marjorie Zatz Head of Faculty and Professor |
Gender, race/ethnicity, comparative justice | Law, policy and social change; social identities and communities; citizenship, migration and human rights |
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Madelaine Adelman Associate Professor |
Political and legal anthropology, gender violence, school climate, social movements/community organizing, research methods, Middle East and U.S. | Social identities and communities; law, policy and social change | |
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David Altheide Regents' Professor |
Mass media, propaganda, qualitative methods | Media, technology and culture | |
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Gray Cavender Professor |
Law and social control, media | Media, technology and culture | |
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Assistant Professor |
History of social movements in the U.S, Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands; political cultures; white supremacy, violence, law and state formation; prison rebellions and incarceration logic | Citizenship, migration, and human rights globalization; sustainability and economic justice; social identities and communities |
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Vanna Gonzales Assistant Professor |
Social policy, welfare reform, governance and the development of the third sector in the United States and Europe | Law, policy and social change; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; citizenship, migration and human rights | |
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LaDawn Haglund Assistant Professor |
International political economy; development and human rights, especially in Latin America; globalization studies; institutions and social change; social and political dimensions of natural resources management, particularly water. | Citizenship, migration and human rights; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; law, policy and social change | |
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John Johnson Professor |
Violence, human rights, justice theory, qualitative methods | Law, policy and social change | |
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Nancy Jurik Professor |
Work and occupations, economic justice, feminist theory | Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; media, technology and culture; social identities and communities | |
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Anupma Kulkarni Assistant Professor |
Transitional justice, democratization, political violence | Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; citizenship, migration and human rights | |
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Pat Lauderdale Professor |
Comparative law and justice, social movements, political trials and deviance, world systems and global inequality, dispute negotiation and indigenous jurisprudence | Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; law, policy and social change | |
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Charles Lee Assistant Professor |
Transnationalism and citizenship, identity politics, cultural studies, social and political theory | Citizenship, migration and human rights; social identities and communities | |
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Merlyna Lim Assistant Professor |
Technology and society, media and information technology, urban politics, globalization | Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; media, technology and culture; social identities and communities | |
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Vera Lopez Associate Professor |
Adolescent substance abuse, delinquency, sexual risk-taking and prevention research | Law, policy and social change; social identities and communities | |
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Arthur Mason Assistant Professor |
Cultural anthropology, politics of arctic energy and resource extraction, interplay of local and trans-local conceptions of knowledge and expertise | Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; law, policy and social change; media, technology and culture; social identities and communities |
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Doris Marie Provine Professor |
Unauthorized immigration, comparative migration law, policy, race and criminal justice | Citizenship, migration and human rights; law, policy and social change | |
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H. L. T. Quan Assistant Professor |
Race, gender and development; race and empire; racial capital; feminist thought; black radical thought; social movements | Social identities and communities; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; citizenship, migrationand human rights | |
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Mary Romero Professor |
Social inequalities and justice, reproductive labor and intersectionality, globalization of caregiving and the legal conceptualizations of care through immigration and employment law, critical race and gender studies | Citizenship, migration and human rights; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; law, policy and social change |


