Law Program Faculty

= Jennifer Hamilton =

Jennifer Hamilton Title: Assistant Professor of Legal Studies Extension: 5578 Office: FPH 208 Mail code: SS Email: jahSS@hampshire.edu

Biography
Jennifer Hamilton, assistant professor of legal studies, received her B.A. in Anthropology and English Literature (McGill University) and her Ph.D. in Anthropology (Rice University). Her interests include social studies of law, science, and biomedicine; theories of culture and identity; and critical race and gender studies. She is the author of Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts. Her most recent research examines human genetic variation research and the sociocultural, legal, and ethical formations which emerge around it. Professor Hamilton was the director of the Law Program for 2008-2009.

= Flavio Risech-Ozeguera =

Flavio Risech-Ozeguera Title: Associate Professor of Law and Ethnic Studies Extension: 5504 Office: FPH G-10 Email: frisech@hampshire.edu

Biography
Flavio Risech-Ozeguera, associate professor of law and ethnic studies, holds a B.A. from the University of South Florida and a J.D. from Boston University, and was a Community Fellow in urban studies and planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Formerly a practicing attorney representing low-income clients and community organizations in immigration, housing, and social welfare matters, he has taught at Harvard and Northeastern law schools, the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University. His interests include civil and human rights; critical race theory; transnational migrations; and Latino/a and Latin American studies with special focus on Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Professor Risech served as associate dean of faculty for Multicultural Education from 2004 to 2007.

= Marlene Gerber Fried =

Marlene Gerber Fried Title: Professor of Philosophy Extension: 5565 Office: FPH G5 Email: mfried@hampshire.edu

Biography
Marlene Gerber Fried, professor of philosophy and director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, has a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. from Brown University. She previously taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She has taught courses about contemporary ethical and social issues, including abortion, sexual, and racial discrimination. She has also, for many years, been a political activist in the reproductive rights movement. She is editor of From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming A Movement, South End Press, 1990; and the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, 2005. Her research and teaching attempt to integrate her experiences as an activist and a philosopher. She is the director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program.

= Stephanie Levin =

Stephanie Levin Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Studies Extension: 5769 Office: AC Email: slevin@hampshire.edu

Biography
Stephanie A. Levin, visiting assistant professor of legal studies, has combined teaching, activism, and legal practice in the areas of law and public policy, civil rights, and constitutional law. She has a B.A. from Barnard College, a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and has taught at Northeastern University, Western New England College Schools of Law, and at the University of Massachusetts. Her interests include the relationship of law and social change; issues of gender, race, ethnicity and the law; the rights of Native American and other indigenous peoples; and the impact of globalization on national legal regulation. She is also associate dean of Academic Support and Advising.

= Falguni A. Sheth =

Falguni A. Sheth Title: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory Extension: 5388 Office: FPH 202 Email: fsheth@hampshire.edu

Biography
Falguni A. Sheth, visiting assistant professor of philosophy and political theory, received a B.A. in Rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. Her dissertation, entitled "Labor, Work, and Citizenship," argues that the meaning of labor is closely tied to various normative conceptions of political and social citizenship. She grounds this argument using the philosophical writings of Hegel, Marx, Arendt, and Eva Kittay. Her teaching and research interests are philosophical and multidisciplinary; they include various topics in feminist, political, and legal philosophies and philosophy of race. She has published articles on public policy topics such as the ethics of the minimum wage and educational vouchers, and on the feminism and social economics of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She is co-editor of a book entitled, Race, Liberalism, and Economics (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming), for which she has written an essay on the philosophical underpinnings of John Stuart Mill's disagreement with Thomas Carlyle on race, slavery, and free markets. Her current research is in three areas: on the political and racial treatment of Muslim immigrants and Black Americans in post-9-11 American political discourse; on the eclipses of sub-altern political spaces in Hannah Arendt's discussion of politics; and on the ethnocentric and class-biased treatment of women's work in feminist theory. &lt;br&gt;

= Barbara Yngvesson =

Barbara Yngvesson Title: Professor of Anthropology Extension: 5578 Office: FPH 208 Email: byngvesson@hampshire.edu

Biography
Barbara Yngvesson, professor of anthropology, received her B.A. from Barnard and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She has carried out research on law, courts, and community in Sweden and in the United States. Her current work, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on issues of identity and belonging in intercountry adoption, and on the hierarchies of nation, race, and class that are constituted in adoption practices. Her areas of teaching include the politics of law, family and kinship, and cultural and political theory. She is the author of Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects: Order and Complaint in a New England Court (Routledge, 1993) and of Law and Community in Three American Towns (Cornell, 1994, co-authored with Carol Greenhouse and David Engel), recipient of the 1996 Law and Society Association Book Award. She is a co-director of the Culture, Brain and Development Program. Professor Yngvesson is also dean of the School of Social Science and co-director of the Culture, Brain, and Development Program. Professor Yngvesson is on sabbatical during the academic year 2008-2009.

= James Miller =

James Miller Title: Professor of Communications Extension: 5510 Office: ASH 202 Email: jmiller@hampshire.edu

Biography
James Miller obtained his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. His principal interests concern aspects of new media technologies and services, such as on-line journalism, media law and policy and the diffusion of media innovations. Current work focuses on media and democracy in the cases of on-line politics and Western-style journalism in Central and Eastern Europe. His comparative study of new media in Canada and Western Europe includes a Fulbright research appointment in Paris. He has chaired the annual international Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and edited its published proceedings. He is a member of the Five College programs in Legal Studies and Peace and World Security Studies.