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Ashley T. Rubin
Year: 3rd Year Grad Student - JSP
Email: poenny@gmail.com
Biography:I aspire to be an historian of crime, criminal justice, and punishment, while utilizing social-science methods and theory.
Education:B.A., University of California, Berkeley, in Legal Studies (summa cum laude) and History (summa cum laude)
Awards:Dean's Honor List (U.C.B.), fall 2003-fall 2005
National Dean's List, nominated spring 2005
Phi Beta Kappa, nominated spring 2006
U.C. Berkeley Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, May 2007
U.C.B. Department Citation in Legal Studies, May 2007
William K. Colbentz Civil Rights Endowment Student Research Fellowship, fall 2009
Generally:
- Penology,
- History,
- Criminology,
- Sociology
Specifically:
- eras in which rehabilitation was a dominant justification for or purpose of punishment;
- the history of the prison, capital punishment, and sentencing generally; and
- punishment and
1) the victims' rights lobby;
2) religion;
3) public opinion;
4) race, ethnicity, and difference; and
5) social solidarity
Research Assistant/Graduate Student Researcher to Professor Charles McClain, summer 2006 to summer 2008
Research Assistant/Graduate Student Researcher to Professor Jonathan Simon, summer 2006 to summer 2008
Graduate Student Researcher to Professor Harry Scheiber, summer 2008, summer 2009
Graduate Student Researcher to Professor Malcolm Feeley, summer 2008 to present
Reader, Legal Studies 190: Supreme Court and Public Policy (Professor Martin Shapiro), spring 2008
Graduate Student Instructor, Legal Studies 111: The Making of Modern Constitutionalism (Professor David Lieberman), summer 2008
Graduate Student Instructor, Legal Studies 105: Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Law (Professor Meir Dan-Cohen), fall 2008
Graduate Student Instructor, Legal Studies 140: Property and Liberty (Professor R. Ben Brown), spring 2009
Boalt (UCB) Death Penalty Clinic, volunteer, summer 2006
Prison University Project (Patton University at San Quentin), office intern (December 2007 to February 2008)
Prison University Project (Patton University at San Quentin), English Tutor for Friday night study hall (volunteer), January 2008 to May 2008
