Current BELS Fellows
The 2012-13 BELS Graduate Fellows
Hillary Berk JSP
Contracts, Surrogacy, and Emotional Labor: How Law Matters When Managing Relationships
Jennifer Carlson Sociology
Prerogative Politics: Guns, Crime and the Problem of Policing
Veena Dubal JSP
Driving Broke: Taxis, Activism, and Transnational Politics in San Francisco
Bryn King Social Welfare
From Protection to Rejection: Race, Gender, and Experiences in Child Welfare as Risk Factors for Juvenile Justice Involvement
Margo Mahan Sociology
Victimized Victimizers?: Male Batterers and the State that Disciplines Them
Genevieve Painter JSP
Aboriginal Women's Rights versus Self-governance in Canada: Rights as Ways of Knowing
Giuliana Perrone History
Unfinished Freedom: Slavery & Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Southern Courts, 1865-1896
Suzanne Scoggins Political Science
Policing China: Effective Policing Practices and Bureaucratic Fragmentation in the P.R.C.
Tamera Stover Sociology
Belonging and Boundaries: Immigrant Responses to Immigration Law and Institutions
Asrat Tesfayesus Economics
One Explanation for the Doha Round Stagnation
The 2011-2012 BELS GRADUATE FELLOWS
Jason Anastasopoulos Political Science
Crime and Punishment? An Experimental Study on Ethnicity and Punitiveness
Kevin Escudero Ethnic Studies
Towards a Social Movement Approach: The Role of Law and Youth Political Activism in the Undocumented Student Movement
Trevor Gardner Sociology
The Safest Place: Sanctuary Cities in the Era of Homeland Security
Satyel Larson Rhetoric
Bearing Knowledge: Law, Reproduction and the Female Body in Modern Morocco, 1912-Present
Tal Niv JSP
Prominent Commenting Platforms and the Nurturing of Participatory Journalism
Marcel Paret Sociology
Legality and Migrant Labor in Comparative Historical Perspective: Class- Citizenship Dynamics in South Africa and the United States from World War II to the Present
James Philips JSP
Constitutionally Constraining Courts: A Comparative Empirical Analysis
Keramet Reiter JSP
The Most Restrictive Alternative: The Origins, Functions, Implications, and Control of the Supermax Prison, 1976-2010
Ashley Rubin JSP
Penal Cycles: American Punishment Since the Revolution
Pablo Rueda JSP
Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Oil, Law & Transnational Indigenous Mobilization
Sarah Tahamont Public Policy
The Effect of Security Classification on Prison Misconduct
Nicole Willcoxon Political Science
The Voting Rights Act, Electoral Institutions, and Voting Behavior: Minority Enfranchisement in Section 5 Covered and Non-covered Jurisdictions

