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Kathryn A. Heard
Year: 2nd Year Grad Student - JSP
Email: kathryn.heard@berkeley.edu
Education:Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley.
MSc with Distinction, European Identities, London School of Economics and Political Science
BA with Honors, Politics and German Studies, Whitman College
History of political thought
Critical theory
Legal cosmopolitanism
Theories and histories of punishment, torture, and terrorism
American constitutional jurisprudence
European immigration, integration, and migration
Mellon Discovery Fellow, Townsend Center, University of California, Berkeley (2008-2011)
Selznick Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (2008)
Leonard Woolf Prize for "Best Overall Performance" in the European Identities MSc, LSE (2007)
Adam Dublin Award for the Study of Global Multiculturalism, Whitman College (2005)
Walter A. Brattain Scholarship, Whitman College (2002-2006)
Publications:
"Civilization versus Barbarism: European Unity as Not-America." Published in Rerum Causae, the LSE Journal of Philosophy, Volume 2, Spring 2007.
Presentations:
"The Barbaric Spectacle: European Discourses on Capital Punishment and the Execution of Saddam Hussein." Law and Society Association's Annual Conference. Denver, CO, 2009.
Graduate Student Researcher for Prof. Judith Butler (Summer 2009).
Student Editor for the Swiss-German journal "Ancilla Iuris: Constellations of European Law" (ongoing).
Graduate Student Researcher for Prof. Justin McCrary (Spring 2009).
Graduate Student Researcher for Prof. Jonathan Simon under the Mellon Initiative Grant for Undergraduate Education (Spring 2009).
