2011-12 General Catalog

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Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Dane Archer, Emeritus

Donald Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology
Linguistic anthropology, folklore, legal anthropology, ethnomusicology, overseas Indians, South Asia, disputing and dispute management, legal language, bureaucratic institutions

Gina Dent, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies
Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture

Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of Sociology
Global jury systems; international law; colonialism and genocide; lay justice systems in Japan, Mexico, China, and Korea; theories of democracy; advanced quantitative analysis, survey, and field methods

Craig W. Haney, Professor of Psychology, Director of Legal Studies
Applications of social psychological principles to legal settings, assessment of the psychological effects of living and working in institutional environments, social contextual origins of violence, development of alternative legal and institutional forms

Mark Fathi Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics
Law and society; politics of human rights; international law and development, with a special interest in Sudan; field research, with an emphasis on qualitative and ethnographic methods

Triloki Nath Pandey, Professor of Anthropology
Native peoples of North America, cultures of India, political anthropology, anthropological theories and comparisons

Daniel M. Press, Professor of Environmental Studies
U.S. environmental politics and policy, social capital and democratic theory, industrial ecology, land and species conservation, regionalism

Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology
Political sociology; law, crime, and social justice; drugs and society

Michael E. Urban, Professor of Politics
Russian politics, postcommunist transitions, U.S.-Russian relations, political language and ideology, revolution

Daniel J. Wirls, Professor of Politics
American politics, including national political institutions (Congress) and the President; public policy (military and foreign policy) and political history

Donald A. Wittman, Professor of Economics
Economic theory, politics, law

John Dizikes, Emeritus

Walter L. Goldfrank, Emeritus

Revised: 8/13/12