VISITING FACULTY
AFFILIATED FACULTY
EMERITUS FACULTY
Ursula Castellano
Associate Professor
Ph.D.: University of California-Davis. 2005
Contact Information:
Bentley Annex 119
Phone: (740) 593-1366
E-mail: castella@ohio.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Specialization:
Sociology of the Courts and Legal Processes,
Ethnography and Qualitative Methodologies,
Sociology of Institutions and Organizations
Courses Taught:
Soc 1000: Introduction to Sociology
Soc 3650: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Soc 4300/5300: Sociology of Organizations
Soc 4620/5620: Sociology of the Courts
Soc 6070: Seminar on Qualitative Methods
Soc 6090: Seminar on Law
Selected Publications:
Castellano, Ursula. 2011. Outsourcing Justice: The Role of Nonprofit Caseworkers in Pretrial Release Programs. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publications/First Forum Press.
Castellano, Ursula. 2011. "Problem-Solving Courts: Theory and Practice." Sociology Compass 5 (11): 957-967.
Castellano, Ursula. 2011. "Courting Compliance: Case Managers as Double Agents in Mental Health Courts." Law & Social Inquiry 36 (2): 513-548.
Castellano, Ursula. 2009. "Lawyer of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition." American Journal of Sociology. 115 (4): 1281-84.
Castellano, Ursula. 2009. "Power, Conflict and Criminalisation." Contemporary Sociology 38 (2): 157-158.
Castellano, Ursula. 2009. "Beyond the Courtroom Workgroup: Caseworkers as the New Satellite of Social Control." Law & Policy 31(4): 429-462.
Castellano, Ursula, Joesph De Angelis, and Marisol Clark Ibanez. 2008. "Cultivating a Sociological Perspective Using Nontraditional Texts." Teaching Sociology 36(3): 240-253.
Castellano, Ursula. 2007. “Becoming a non-expert and other strategies for managing fieldwork dilemmas in the criminal justice system.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36(6): 704-730.
Castellano, Ursula. 2007. “Tell your story.” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds 6(3): 56-57.
Castellano, Ursula. 2007. “Caribbean drugs: From criminalization to harm reduction.” International Sociology Review of Books 22 (5): 598-601.
Riker, Alissa and Ursula Castellano. 2001. “The Homeless Release Project: An Innovative Pretrial Release Option.” Federal Probation 65: 9-13.
Riker, Ali and Ursula Castellano. 2000. “Community-Based Treatment: The Impact of the Homeless Pretrial Release Project.” Justice Policy Institute (June).