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Susan Burgess, Professor of Political Science
Law, Justice & Social Change; Gender & Sexuality; Popular Culture
Bentley Annex 225, 740-597-1347
burgess@ohio.edu

Ursula Castellano, Associate Professor of Sociology
The Criminal Justice System; Courts & Legal Processes; Nonprofits & Community Organization; Mental Health & Illness
Bentley Annex 119, 740-593-1366
castella@ohio.edu

Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Violence, War, & Militarization; Human Rights; Peace & Justice; Theories of Exclusion; Rule of Law; Applied Anthropology; Public Anthropology; South Asia, India, Kashmir
Bentley Annex 131, 740-593-0823
duschins@ohio.edu

John Gilliom, Professor & Chair of Department of Political Science
Surveillance, Power and the Politics of Resistance; Privacy; Popular Legal Consciousness; the Politics of Rights
Bentley Annex 261, 740-593-1338
gilliom@ohio.edu

Judith Grant, Professor of Political Science & Director of Women’s & Gender Studies
Political Theory; Feminist Theory; Cultural Studies; Law & Film; Politics & Popular Culture
Bentley Annex 270, 740-593-4369
grantj1@ohio.edu

Bruce Hoffman, Associate Professor of Sociology
Criminological Theory; Mass Atrocity & Genocide; Human Rights; Conflict Transformation & Justice Practices; Law & Society; Science Studies; Social Movements; Social Theory
Bentley Annex 157, 740-593-1381
hoffmanb@ohio.edu

Vincent Jungkunz, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Democratic Theory; Critical Race Theory; Gender, Sexuality & Popular Culture; Politics of Silence; Rights
Bentley Annex 257, 740-593-1336
jungkunz@ohio.edu

Marina Peterson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, School of Interdisciplinary Arts
Cities & Citizenship, Music & Performance, Globalization & Transnationalism, Production of Space, Social Theory
Lindley Hall 112, 740-597-2574
petersom@ohio.edu

Andrew Ross, Assistant Professor of Political Science
International Relations; International Law; Political Theory; Emotion; Human Rights
Bentley Annex 255, 740-597-1820
rossa@ohio.edu

Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History
Medieval Women
Bentley Annex 405 740-593-4364
shadis@ohio.edu

Solveig Spjeldnes, Assistant Professor of Social Work
Jails and Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Policy; Recidivism; Reentry Services; Former Male Inmates Well-being and Family Relationships; Children of Incarcerated Fathers
522 Morton Hall, 740-593-1727
spjeldne@ohio.edu

Kathleen Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science
Constitutional Interpretation; American Political Development
Bentley Annex 233, 740-597-1382
sullivak@ohio.edu

Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Bentley Annex 213, 740-593-4367
thompsd3@ohio.edu

Kevin Uhalde, Associate Professor of History
Justice in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Bentley Annex 403, 740-593-0220
uhalde@ohio.edu

Thomas Vander Ven, Associate Professor of Sociology
Crime and Delinquency; Sociology of Alcohol; Work, Family, & Crime; Criminological Theory; Sociology of Social Problems
Bentley Annex 147, 740-593-1374
vandervt@ohio.edu

Julie White, Associate Professor of Political Science
Political Theory; Ethics & Public Policy; Feminist Ethics
Bentley Annex 227, 740-593-1333
whitej@ohio.edu

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