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CULJP Board of Directors

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  Paul Collins
  President 
  University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  pmcollins@legal.umass.edu


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 for CULJP.

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  Haley Duschinski 
  Vice President
  Ohio University 
  Duschins@ohio.edu


Haley Duschinski is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture at Ohio University (CLJC). In 2018, she became the Graduate Director of CLJC's new M.A. program in Law, Justice & Culture. She is a legal and political anthropologist with research specializations in violence, war, and power; law and society; human rights, ​militarization and impunity; and law and memory in Kashmir. She is co-editor of Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (University of Pennsylvania Press) and a recent special issue of Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law on comparative studies of occupation. She is a founding member of the Critical Kashmir Studies scholarly collective. She is the recipient of the Presidential Teacher Award (2014), as well as the Grasselli Brown Teaching Award (2009) and the University Professor Award (2007) at Ohio University. In 2019, she became the Communications Director for CULJP. ​

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Jinee Lokaneeta
Former President 
Drew University
jlokanee@drew.edu

Jinee Lokaneeta is Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Drew University. Her areas of interest include Law and Violence, Political Theory, and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies. She is the author of Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India (New York University Press, 2011, Orient Blackswan 2012) and the co-editor with Nivedita Menon and Sadhna Arya of Feminist Politics: Struggles and Issues (in Hindi). Delhi: Hindi Medium Directorate, 2001. Her forthcoming book The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India (University of Michigan Press, March 2020) theorizes the relationship between state power and legal violence by focusing on the intersection of law, science and policing though a study of forensic techniques-narco analysis, brainscans and lie detectors. At Drew, she teaches courses titled Law, Justice and Society; Torture: Pain, Body and Truth and Policing and the Rule of Law.

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Aaron Lorenz 
Treasurer
Ramapo College 
alorenz@ramapo.edu

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.

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Sida Liu 
Communications Director
University of Toronto
sd.liu@utoronto.ca

 Sida Liu is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He is an active faculty member in the Criminology, Law and Society (CLS) program at the University of Toronto Mississauga, one of the largest undergraduate law & justice programs in Canada. Dr. Liu’s research interests focus on the legal profession and sociolegal theory. He has taught courses on several sociolegal topics, including the sociology of law, the legal profession, and research projects in criminology, law and society. Dr. Liu has provided many services to the law and society community over the years and served on the board of the Law & Society Association, the Asian Law & Society Association, and the Canadian Law & Society Association.

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Renee Cramer
Board Member
Drake University 
renee.cramer@drake.edu

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.

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Jean M. Connolly Carmalt
​Board Member
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
jcarmalt@jjay.cuny.edu

​Dr. Carmalt's research and teaching focus on international law and society, with a particular interest in the right to health, UN human rights processes, and environmental disasters. Her work can be found in journals such as Human Rights Quarterly, Progress in Human Geography, and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, as well as in edited volumes by Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Oxford University Press.


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    Danielle Rudes
    Board Member 
    George Mason University
    drudes@gmu.edu


Danielle S. Rudes is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and the Deputy Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) at George Mason University. She is a qualitative researcher with experience working with corrections agencies including prisons, jails, probation/parole and courts. She is recognized for her work examining how social control organizations, middle managers and street-level workers understand, negotiate, and at times, resist change. Dr. Rudes serves as Associate Editor of Victims & Offenders and publishes regularly in journals such as Law & Policy. Dr. Rudes is also the winner of GMU’s Teaching (2012) and  
Mentoring (2015) Excellence Awards.

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    John McMahon    
    Board Member   
    SUNY Plattsburgh
    jmcmao04@plattsburgh.edu


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.
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​Sanghamitra Padhy
Board Member
Ramapo College of New Jersey

spadhy@ramapo.edu

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. 

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Raul Sanchez Urribarri
Board Member 
La Trobe University
R.SanchezU@LaTrobe.edu.au


Raul Sanchez Urribarri is a Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia). He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of South Carolina in 2010, with a dissertation focused on the political relevance of informal connections between judges and politicians in Venezuela. His research focuses on democracy, rule of law and comparative judicial studies, with an emphasis on Latin America and Venezuela in particular. Dr Sanchez Urribarri’s work has been published in academic journals – such as The Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences and International Political Science Review – edited volumes and other outlets, including The Conversation and a variety of academic blogs.  As part of his teaching activities, he coordinates undergraduate and post-graduate research training units, including a research-oriented study tour course to New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta. Currently he also serves as Overseas Short Programs Coordinator for La Trobe's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is passionate about international education and the opportunities it offers for teaching, learning and scholarship.


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Grace Tran
Communications Assistant
University of Toronto

grace.tran@mail.utoronto.ca

Grace Tran is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. She is also a Visiting Scholar at Rice University and a Kinder Scholar at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Grace’s advocacy work, writing, and research interests stem from both her background in creative writing and the nexus of disruption, resettlement, opportunity, and overwhelm that informed her own parents’ diasporic narratives as Vietnamese refugees. Grace is interested in constructions of belonging, identity, gender, and intimacy as they intersect with understandings of migration and citizenship. Grace’s dissertation explores the legal regulation of transnational marriages, the transformative effects of immigration law and processes, and how marriage and affect are negotiated along and past state borders. Her writing has been featured in the Toronto Star. 

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