CULJP Board of Directors
Haley Duschinski
President
Ohio University
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Haley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University. She is a legal and political anthropologist with research specializations in law and society; violence, war, and power; and human rights, militarization and impunity. She co-edited Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (UPenn Press 2018), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (Routledge 2022), and The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (Palgrave forthcoming) as well as special issues of The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (2018), Critique of Anthropology (2020), and Himalaya (2020). She is the recipient of Ohio University's Presidential Teacher Award, Grasselli Brown Teaching Award, and University Professor Award. She served as Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture from 2013-2020 and Graduate Director of the MA in Law, Justice & Culture from 2018-2022. Since 2014, she has directed OU’s study abroad program on Human Rights, Law & Justice in Northern Ireland.
President
Ohio University
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Haley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University. She is a legal and political anthropologist with research specializations in law and society; violence, war, and power; and human rights, militarization and impunity. She co-edited Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (UPenn Press 2018), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (Routledge 2022), and The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (Palgrave forthcoming) as well as special issues of The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (2018), Critique of Anthropology (2020), and Himalaya (2020). She is the recipient of Ohio University's Presidential Teacher Award, Grasselli Brown Teaching Award, and University Professor Award. She served as Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture from 2013-2020 and Graduate Director of the MA in Law, Justice & Culture from 2018-2022. Since 2014, she has directed OU’s study abroad program on Human Rights, Law & Justice in Northern Ireland.
Raul Sanchez Urribarri
Vice President
La Trobe University
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Raul is Associate Dean (Academic and International Partnerships) at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. His research focuses on constitutionalism, judicial politics, and the rule of law in comparative perspective, with an emphasis on contexts of democratic deterioration. His work has been published The Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, International Political Science Review, and the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Latin American Research Review, among others. He is co-editor at Thesis Eleven (SAGE), and past Chair of the Section on Venezuelan Studies at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Raul also has a strong interest in the internationalization of higher education, particularly on international mobility and intercultural teaching. He leads a research-intensive international study tour to New Orleans and Mississippi, focused on reflective experiential learning.
Vice President
La Trobe University
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Raul is Associate Dean (Academic and International Partnerships) at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. His research focuses on constitutionalism, judicial politics, and the rule of law in comparative perspective, with an emphasis on contexts of democratic deterioration. His work has been published The Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, International Political Science Review, and the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Latin American Research Review, among others. He is co-editor at Thesis Eleven (SAGE), and past Chair of the Section on Venezuelan Studies at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Raul also has a strong interest in the internationalization of higher education, particularly on international mobility and intercultural teaching. He leads a research-intensive international study tour to New Orleans and Mississippi, focused on reflective experiential learning.
Aaron Lorenz
Treasurer
Ramapo College
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Aaron Lorenz is Dean of the School of Social Science and Human Services and Associate Professor of Law & Society at Ramapo College. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research addresses constitutive theory with particular attention on popular culture.
Treasurer
Ramapo College
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Aaron Lorenz is Dean of the School of Social Science and Human Services and Associate Professor of Law & Society at Ramapo College. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research addresses constitutive theory with particular attention on popular culture.
Jamie Longazel
John Jay College, CUNY
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Jamie is Associate Professor of Law & Society in the Political Science Department at John Jay College. He’s also affiliated with the International Migration Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches in John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program. Much of his research focuses on immigration law and politics, although he’s also written about mass incarceration and the politics of policing. Jamie is the author of the award-winning book Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (Temple University Press); co-editor of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple University Press); and co-author of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (Routledge). He’s also the founder of Anthracite Unite, an education and advocacy collective working on issues of racial and economic justice in Northeast Pennsylvania.
John Jay College, CUNY
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Jamie is Associate Professor of Law & Society in the Political Science Department at John Jay College. He’s also affiliated with the International Migration Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches in John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program. Much of his research focuses on immigration law and politics, although he’s also written about mass incarceration and the politics of policing. Jamie is the author of the award-winning book Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (Temple University Press); co-editor of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple University Press); and co-author of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (Routledge). He’s also the founder of Anthracite Unite, an education and advocacy collective working on issues of racial and economic justice in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Steve Boutcher
Board Member
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Steve is currently the Executive Officer of the Law & Society Association and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Steve’s research lies at the intersection of law, organizations, and social change, particularly focusing on social movements and the legal profession. He is currently co-PI on two NSF-funded projects: one focusing on LGBT employment discrimination in large private workplaces and the other on race and gender discrimination in local and state workplaces. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Science Research, Law & Social Inquiry, Mobilization, and other outlets. He is currently co-editing the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change (with Michael Yarbrough and Corey Shdaimah), which is under contract with Edward Elgar Press.
Board Member
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Steve is currently the Executive Officer of the Law & Society Association and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Steve’s research lies at the intersection of law, organizations, and social change, particularly focusing on social movements and the legal profession. He is currently co-PI on two NSF-funded projects: one focusing on LGBT employment discrimination in large private workplaces and the other on race and gender discrimination in local and state workplaces. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Science Research, Law & Social Inquiry, Mobilization, and other outlets. He is currently co-editing the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change (with Michael Yarbrough and Corey Shdaimah), which is under contract with Edward Elgar Press.
Paul Collins
Board Member
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Paul is Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research and teaching interests focus on understanding the democratic nature of the judiciary, interdisciplinary approaches to legal decision making, and social movement litigation. He has published more than two dozen academic articles and he is the author of Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making (Oxford University Press), coauthor of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change (Cambridge University Press), and coauthor of The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump (Cambridge University Press). His courses include Introduction to Legal Studies, Judges and Judging, and Law and Social Activism. Paul previously served as the Vice President of CULJP.
Board Member
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Paul is Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research and teaching interests focus on understanding the democratic nature of the judiciary, interdisciplinary approaches to legal decision making, and social movement litigation. He has published more than two dozen academic articles and he is the author of Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making (Oxford University Press), coauthor of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change (Cambridge University Press), and coauthor of The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump (Cambridge University Press). His courses include Introduction to Legal Studies, Judges and Judging, and Law and Social Activism. Paul previously served as the Vice President of CULJP.
Renee Cramer
Board Member
Drake University
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Renee Ann Cramer is associate professor and chair of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. She earned her PhD in Politics from New York University in 2001, with a dissertation and book that focused on federal acknowledgement for American Indian tribes. Her second book, on our obsession with celebrity pregnancy, was published in 2015 by Stanford University Press; she is currently working on a third project mapping the regulation of homebirth midwifery. Professor Cramer teaches a wide range of courses, including Law and Social Change, Reproductive Law and Politics; Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory; and Contemporary American Indian Law and Politics.
Board Member
Drake University
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Renee Ann Cramer is associate professor and chair of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. She earned her PhD in Politics from New York University in 2001, with a dissertation and book that focused on federal acknowledgement for American Indian tribes. Her second book, on our obsession with celebrity pregnancy, was published in 2015 by Stanford University Press; she is currently working on a third project mapping the regulation of homebirth midwifery. Professor Cramer teaches a wide range of courses, including Law and Social Change, Reproductive Law and Politics; Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory; and Contemporary American Indian Law and Politics.
John McMahon
Board Member
SUNY Plattsburgh
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John McMahon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches courses in political thought, feminist politics, and Black politics and was one of the two leads in designing a new interdisciplinary Law and Justice major. His research interests include political theories of work and labor, Black political thought, feminist political thought, critical legal studies, and political science pedagogy. His scholarship has been published in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, New Political Science, and the Journal of Political Science Education, among other venues. He is also one of the hosts of the Always Already critical theory podcast.
Board Member
SUNY Plattsburgh
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John McMahon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches courses in political thought, feminist politics, and Black politics and was one of the two leads in designing a new interdisciplinary Law and Justice major. His research interests include political theories of work and labor, Black political thought, feminist political thought, critical legal studies, and political science pedagogy. His scholarship has been published in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, New Political Science, and the Journal of Political Science Education, among other venues. He is also one of the hosts of the Always Already critical theory podcast.
Sanghamitra Padhy
Board Member
Ramapo College of New Jersey
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Sanghamitra Padhy is Associate Professor of Law and Society, and Sustainability at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California. Her teaching and research focus on law and public policy with a particular interest in environmental justice, human rights, international law, and sustainability.
Board Member
Ramapo College of New Jersey
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Sanghamitra Padhy is Associate Professor of Law and Society, and Sustainability at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California. Her teaching and research focus on law and public policy with a particular interest in environmental justice, human rights, international law, and sustainability.
Miranda Hallett
Board Member
University of Dayton
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Miranda Cady Hallett (PhD Cornell University) is Director of Human Rights Studies, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and Research Fellow at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Trained as a legal anthropologist, Hallett’s research specializes in immigration law from a critical perspective and its intersection with labor law and human rights. In addition, her work and teaching deals with citizenship practices and claims made in contexts where people are faced with state violence or constrained by authoritarianism and punitive practice, such as the activism of detained people and undocumented immigrants. Notable articles include an ethnography of racialized moral politics for Latino Studies, a 2014 piece in Law and Social Inquiry about the tensions and contradictions of Temporary Protected Status, a 2019 article in PoLAR on the Ministry for Salvadorans Abroad, and a 2022 case study in Citizenship Studies about organizing to denounce abuses in an Ohio detention center, co-authored with Yulianna Otero-Asmar. She also appears occasionally as expert witness in U.S. immigration court asylum cases for Salvadoran claimants, and lectures and writes on migration and rights regimes in the Americas for scholarly and public venues. Hallett also works to convene scholars and advocates across disciplinary lines through workshops, special editions of academic journals, and other collaborative projects—most recently having co-edited, with Jamie Longazel, the volume Migration and Mortality: social death, dispossession, and survival in the Americas (Temple University Press 2021). She is a member of the Law & Society Association, the El Salvador Studies Working Group, and the American Anthropological Association (Society for the Study of North America and Association for Political and Legal Anthropology).
Board Member
University of Dayton
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Miranda Cady Hallett (PhD Cornell University) is Director of Human Rights Studies, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and Research Fellow at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Trained as a legal anthropologist, Hallett’s research specializes in immigration law from a critical perspective and its intersection with labor law and human rights. In addition, her work and teaching deals with citizenship practices and claims made in contexts where people are faced with state violence or constrained by authoritarianism and punitive practice, such as the activism of detained people and undocumented immigrants. Notable articles include an ethnography of racialized moral politics for Latino Studies, a 2014 piece in Law and Social Inquiry about the tensions and contradictions of Temporary Protected Status, a 2019 article in PoLAR on the Ministry for Salvadorans Abroad, and a 2022 case study in Citizenship Studies about organizing to denounce abuses in an Ohio detention center, co-authored with Yulianna Otero-Asmar. She also appears occasionally as expert witness in U.S. immigration court asylum cases for Salvadoran claimants, and lectures and writes on migration and rights regimes in the Americas for scholarly and public venues. Hallett also works to convene scholars and advocates across disciplinary lines through workshops, special editions of academic journals, and other collaborative projects—most recently having co-edited, with Jamie Longazel, the volume Migration and Mortality: social death, dispossession, and survival in the Americas (Temple University Press 2021). She is a member of the Law & Society Association, the El Salvador Studies Working Group, and the American Anthropological Association (Society for the Study of North America and Association for Political and Legal Anthropology).
Julius Haag
Board Member
University of Toronto
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Julius Haag , B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto), is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His areas of interest include policing, youth justice, racialization, ethnicity, criminalization, and teaching and learning. His research draws on urban sociology, critical race theory, and cultural criminology to explore the individual and community-level impacts of policing and criminalization on young people from racialized and marginalized backgrounds, with a focus on young people from the Afro-Caribbean community.
Board Member
University of Toronto
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Julius Haag , B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto), is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His areas of interest include policing, youth justice, racialization, ethnicity, criminalization, and teaching and learning. His research draws on urban sociology, critical race theory, and cultural criminology to explore the individual and community-level impacts of policing and criminalization on young people from racialized and marginalized backgrounds, with a focus on young people from the Afro-Caribbean community.
Ayden McDougle
Communications Assistant
Ohio University
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Ayden is a second-year undergraduate student pursuing a B.A. in Political Science Pre-Law, a Minor in History, Certificate(s) in Law, Justice, & Culture, and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Ohio University. He is the New Member Coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union Campus Action Team of Ohio University, a member of The Ohio University Mock Trial Team and Host/Writer/Producer of Athens Happens a political podcast by The New Political, an independent student publication on Ohio University's campus.
Communications Assistant
Ohio University
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Ayden is a second-year undergraduate student pursuing a B.A. in Political Science Pre-Law, a Minor in History, Certificate(s) in Law, Justice, & Culture, and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Ohio University. He is the New Member Coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union Campus Action Team of Ohio University, a member of The Ohio University Mock Trial Team and Host/Writer/Producer of Athens Happens a political podcast by The New Political, an independent student publication on Ohio University's campus.