Professional Title:
Graduate Student
Adjunct Professor Worcester State University
Office:
Thompson 628
Email:
Office Hours:
Fall 2018 Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday noon-1pm, and by appointment
Degree:
M.S. in Jurisprudence and Social Thought from American University's School of Public Affairs, Washington, DC; M.A in English from Clark University; B.A. in English Literature from Worcester State College
Bio:
My area of focus is on law's role in constructing, maintaining, an masking inequality. Particularly, I am interested in the way law and society interact to (re)produce patterns of injustice over time. .
Current projects:
- research the non-clinical determinants of cesarean sections in the US
- exploring emerging social movements through the lens of the birth rights/obstetric violence movement
- researching the Nazi Lebensborn program and the political and legal dimensions of immediate post-war Germany
Areas of interest:
- public law
- law and society
- social determinants of health
- political economy
- political sociology
- rhetoric
- agenda setting and framing
- reproductive rights
- rights claiming
- teaching and pedagogy
- constitutional law and comparative constitutional development
- pop culture/geek culture (especially science fiction like Doctor Who, Jericho, and Star Trek)
- law and literature (especially Harry Potter and Shakespeare)
Courses in Development:
Law-mageddon: An introduction to Law and Society: this course uses post-apocalyptic readings and movies (such as Demolition Man and World War Z) to consider what we think law can and should do.