2019-2020 BERKELEY EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES (BELS) GRADUATE FELLOWS
Ilya Akdemir, Law/JSD
“Predicting Outcome of Certiorari Petitions: A Text Classification Approach”
Matthew Cannon, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
“Inventing Protest: Activism by American Inventor Groups”
Michel Estefan, Sociology
“The Authoritarian Foundations of the Rule of Law: Autonomy and Organizational Capacity in the Judicial Systems of Mexico and Spain”
Isabel Garcia Valdivia, Sociology
“The Effects of Legal Status on Older Mexican Migrants in the U.S. and Mexico”
Ivy Hammond, School of Social Welfare
“Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: The Impact of Safe Harbor Policy”
Kira Jeter, School of Public Health
“Returning Home, Returning to Reality: Recovery Oriented Services for Formerly Incarcerated Black Women”
Brian Klein, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
“Order and the Underground: Governing the Goldfields of Madagascar”
Benjamin Krause, Agricultural and Resource Economics
“Taxation Toward Representation: Public Goods, Social Norms, and Democratic Accountability”
Eunice Lee, Anthropology
“Refugee Policy, Local Citizenship, and “Sanctuary” in San Francisco”
David Showalter, Sociology
“Formal and Informal Social Control in a Remote California Town”
Pauline White Meeusen, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
“Somos Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras: Legal and Oppositional Consciousness Among Actors in the Central American Refugee Movement”
Maximilien Zahnd, Law/JSD
“Space, Indigeneity, and the Early Implementation of the 1919 Alaska School Tax”
THE 2018-2019 BERKELEY EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES (BELS) GRADUATE FELLOWS
Alexander Barnard, Sociology
“Coerce to Conserve: Constructing the Continuum of Constraint for the Severely Mentally Ill in California”
Gabriel Beringer, JSP
“Fettered Freedoms: Race, Agrarian Capitalism, and the Lost Promises of Radical Reconstruction”
Martin Eiermann, Sociology
“The Genesis of a ‘Right to Privacy’: Codification and Genealogy in American Jurisprudence”
Katherine Hood, Sociology
“Pleading for Care: Adversarial Legalism and the Allocation of Drug Treatment in California’s Criminal Courts”
Kristine Kay, Political Science
“The Consequences of a Census Citizenship Question for Latino Identification”
Elena Kempf, History
“Unnecessary Cruelty: Weapons Prohibitions and the Law of Armed Conflict, 1868-Present”
Rhea Myerscough, Political Science
“Risk, Race, and the Politics of Fringe Credit Regulation”
Deepak Premkumar, Agricultural & Resource Economics
“The Ferguson Effect: Do High-Profile Fatal Encounters with Police Lead to Reductions in Arresting Intensity?”
Alexander Roehrkasse, Sociology
“States of Disunion: American Marriage and Divorce, 1867–1906”
Abigail Stepnitz, JSP
“Narrating from the Bottom: A Comparative Analysis of the Construction and Assessment of Credibility in Asylum Claims in the UK and the USA”
Jay Varellas, Political Science
“State Courts, Corporate Power and Economic Inequality: A Comparative Study of Injury Litigation in Mid-Sized U.S. Cities”
Joseph Warren, Political Science
“Social Foundations of the Rule of Law”
THE 2017-2018 BERKELEY EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES (BELS) GRADUATE FELLOWS
Chase Burton JSP
Republican Monsters: Criminology and Gothic Culture in the United States, 1780-1934
Jaclyn Chambers Social Welfare
Assessing the Impact of Juvenile Justice Fee Reform
Anthony Gregory History
New Deal War on Crime: Building Security State Liberalism
Christopher Herring Sociology
Pervasive Penality: The Criminalization of Homelessness in San Francisco
Jae Yeon Kim Political Science
Benevolent Racialization: How U.S. Government Policies Have Shaped the Growth of Panethnic Advocacy and Service Organizations among Asian and Latino Groups since the 1960s
Mark Leinauer JSP
Exploring Judicial Bias against Lesbian and Gay Male Parents in Adoption and Custody Proceedings
Andrew McCall Political Science
Reshaping the Shield: Specialized Police Units and Racial Disparity in Policing
Gil Rothschild Elyassi JSP
Decarcerated Penality: Probation and Demeanor Management in the Face of Legal Estrangement
Kristin Sangren Anthropology
Conceptions of Law, Justice, and Social Morality in a Chinese City
Caleb Scoville Sociology
Resuscitating Nature: Science, Law, and the Morality of Endangered Species Conservation in California
Elaine Sedenberg School of Information
Study of Private Sector Research and Data Sharing Practices
Desiree Valadares Environmental Design – Architecture
Remembering in the Absence of Memory: North American Truth Commissions and their Commemorative Policy Directives
The 2016 – 2017 BELS Graduate Fellows
Amanda Charbonneau, Public Policy
“The Psychology and Law of Criminal Suspicion”
Ben Chen, JSP
“Does CBA (Cost Benefit Analysis) Shape Preferences?”
Sujin Eom, Architecture
“Chinatown Urbanism: Architecture, Migrancy, and Modernity in the Asia Pacific”
Jieun Kim, Political Science
“Why Ambiguous Guidelines? Evidence from China’s 12th Five-Year Plan”
Alan Kluegel, JSP
“Networking among the Human Capitalists: Change and Contestation in the Attorney Networks of the Large Law Firm”
Johann Koehler, JSP
“The Limits of the Medical Model in Research on Crime and Justice”
Renee Mack, Social Welfare
“The Hotel California: Understanding Therapeutic Capacity at the Last Intersection of the Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems”
Katherine Maich, Sociology
“Domesticating Democracy: Household Workers, Legislation, and Labor Rights at Home in New York and Lima”
Lindsay Parham, JSP
“The Context of Choice: A Neo-institutional Vision of Prenatal Bioethics”
Shaina Potts, Geography
“Sovereignty Refashioned: Law, Territory and Financial Space”
Jason Poulos, Political Science
“Amnesty and Loyalty in the Postbellum South”
Maria–Fátima Santos, Sociology
“Brazilian Carceral Reform: Securing the Rule of Law in Latin America?”
The 2015-16 BELS Graduate Fellows
Tria Andrews Ethnic Studies
Education and Incarceration for Lakota Youth on the Rosebud Reservation, 1886-Present
Mina Barahimi JSP
The Law of ‘Voluntary’ Departure and the Hidden Terrain of Immigrant Control in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Carlos Bustamante Sociology
Restricted Play: Resilience and Resistance in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Oakland, CA, Lima, Peru, and Stockholm, Sweden
Louise Nelson Dyble Law/JD
Toxic City: Local Corruption and Environmental Justice in Chicago
Laurel Eckhouse Political Science
Police and the Citizen-State Relationship: Accountability, Democratic Control, and Equal Access to Law in the United States
Kathryn “Katie” Heard JSP
The Power of Reason and the Promise of Religious Freedom in Late Secular Liberalism
Sunmin Kim Sociology
Forging the Racial Order: Politics of Ethnicity in the Dillingham Commission Report (1911)
Jean-Michel Landry Anthropology
Disciplining the Law: Practices of Shi’i Islamic Law in Contemporary Lebanon
Joy Milligan JSP
The Fragmented Integration State: Federal Agencies and Civil Rights, 1964-1980
Antonia Rivas Anthropology
Returning to Traditional “Ancestral” Law in Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Authenticity, Resistance and Sovereignty
Jason Rozumalski History
Lords of All They Survey: Measure, Mobility, and the Rule of Law in Early Modern England
William Welsh Sociology
The New Enemy: Punishment and The Political in Post-Mao China
The 2014-15 BELS Graduate Fellows
John Bliss JSP
The Divided Self: A Qualitative Study of Law School Socialization
Gabrielle Goldstein Public Health
Measuring Legal Risk Perception and Defensive Review: Survey of Institutional Review Board Members in the US
Alexandra Havrylyshyn JSP
Contesting the Status of Slavery in Early Canada
Hannah Lacqueur JSP
Constructing and Testing Theories of Personal Crime Rates
Robert Lee History
Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1804-1851
Matty Lichtenstein Sociology
Contested Identities, Contested Rights: Education, Religion, and the Politics of Governance
Daniel Mattingly Political Science
Did Democratic Reforms Weaken the Rule of Law and Property Security in Rural China?
Kelsey Mayo JSP
Law and Institutional Competition in Charter School Authorization
Eugene McCarthy Rhetoric
The Corporate Person: Actor Network Theory and Corporate Law
Katherine Michel Political Science
Between Regimes: Constitutional Design in Transitional Groups
The 2013-14 BELS Graduate Fellows
Jason Ferguson Sociology
Regulating Sex: Mapping the Space of Laws in the Global Field of Power
Adam Hill Jurisprudence and Social Policy
The Microfoundations of Administrative Accountability: Information, Norms, and Enforcement
Mary Hoopes Jurisprudence and Social Policy
The Role of Organizations in the Emergence and Diffusion of Recent State Laws Regulating Immigration
Ryan Hubert Political Science
“Taking Law Seriously”: Statistical Text Analysis as a Way to Understand Judicial Behavior
Daniel Kluttz Sociology
Fracking and Fields: A Comparative Analysis of Fields in Times of Major Social Disruption
Nicole Lindahl Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Emotion Work on San Quentin’s Mainline
Peggy O’Donnell History
Where the Bodies are Buried: Forensic Experts and Human Rights Violations from the Katyn Forest to The Hague
Janna Rezaee Political Science
Presidential Review and Agency Rulemaking
Alisa Sanchez Rhetoric
The Preoccupation with Modernity in Columbia’s Abortion Laws, 1936-2006
Jacob Wegmann City and Regional Planning
“We Just Went Ahead and Built It”: Informality and the Housing Market in Southeast Los Angeles County
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
The 2010-2011 BELS Graduate Fellows
Mimi Kim, School of Social Welfare
“Contesting Feminisms: New Social Movement Challenges to Gender-Based and State Violence”
Gwendolyn Leachman, Jurisprudence & Social Policy
“Legalizing Sexuality: Law and Dominance in the Politics of ‘Gay Rights'”
Larisa Mann, Jurisprudence & Social Policy
“Copyright Law in Creative Practice in Jamaica”
Silvia Pasquetti, Department of Sociology
“Organized Refugees and Fragmented Citizens: A Comparative Ethnography of Urban Social Control across the Green Line”
Jamie Rowen, Jurisprudence & Social Policy
“The Transitional Justice Social Movement”
Sarath Sanga, Department of Economics
“Racial Bias and Learning in Law Enforcement”
Douglas Spencer, Jurisprudence & Social Policy
“Calculating Constitutions: An Economic Analysis of Constitutional Design”
Christina Stevens, Jurisprudence & Social Policy
“Effects of a Colorblind Model of Diversity on Hiring Decisions”
Shauhin Talesh, Jurisprudence & Social Policy
“Manufacturing Consumer Protection Law: The Private Construction of Public Legal Rights”
A.B. Wilkinson, Department of History
“Mixed-Race Ideologies in the United States”
Abby Wood, Department of Political Science
“Who Guards the Guardians? Agency Accountability Mechanisms in the Fifty U.S. States”
The Inaugural Class of BELS Graduate Fellows 2009-2010
Faiz Ahmed, Department of History
“Rule of Law Projects in Afghanistan: The Nizamnama Codes of Shah Amanullah, 1919-1929”
Rachel Best, Department of Sociology
“Deserving Patients: Health Social Movements and Lawmakers’ Priority-Setting”
Angela Hill, Department of Rhetoric
“This Modern Day Slavery: Sex Trafficking and Moral Panic in the United Kingdom”
Kimberly Alexa Koenig, Jurisprudence & Social Policy. Berkeley Law
“The Worst: An Analysis of Institutionalized Violence at Guantanamo”
Karin Martin, Goldman School of Public Policy
“From Neighborhoods to Judges: An Analysis of Crime Policy Preferences and Implementation”
Brent Nakamura, Jurisprudence & Social Policy, Berkeley Law
“The Lawyerization of Medicine”: An Empirical Inquiry into the Creation, Diffusion and Rise of the
In-House Counsel in American Health Care”
Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Department of African American Studies
“Popular and Professional Legal Consciousness: An Intersectional Approach”
Timothy Rodriguez, Department of Anthropology
“Religious Conversions Among Urban Male Heroin Users”
Michael Salamone, Department of Political Science
“Judicial Dissent and Political Resistance”
Stephen Smith, Berkeley Law (JD) and Department of Sociology
“Hijacking Counterterrorism: National Laws and Political Repression in the Post-9/11 era”
Hilary Soderland, Berkeley Law (JD)
“America’s Cherished Reserves: the Enduring Significance of the 1916 National Park Organic Act”