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