Paul Amar Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., M.A., Politics: New York University B.A., Political Science, Comparative Literature, Arabic Studies: Duke University Additional Studies: L’Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris; American University in Cairo Universite` de Marrakech; Instituto Universitario de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro Phone: 1-805-893-2645 Email: amar AT lawso.ucsb.edu

Research Interests: Paul Amar is a political scientist and urban ethnographer specializing in security politics, police-military relations, humanitarian law and authoritarian states. He researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Amar has worked at the United Nations, and on behalf of community struggles to fight police brutality and military atrocity, and to strengthen institutions of citizenship and cultures of legality.

Publications:

Books

Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New, Globalized Middle East, edited with Diane Singerman (American University in Cairo, 2006)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Policing the Perversions of Globalization in Cairo and Rio: Sexual Security Politics, Contentious Urban Histories, and the Logic of Contemporary Para-Statal Militarization,” under review by Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2007

“Mohammed Atta’s Urbanism and the “Rescue” of Islamic Cairo: Urban Tourism, Cultural Politics, and the Neoliberal Security State.” under review by Antipode, 2007

Book Chapters

“Policing Tourism in Serrinha Favela (Rio) and Harlem (New York): Torture, In/visibility and the Marketing of Urban History, Crime Legends and Black Soul” in Sonia Torres, ed. Routes and Roots: American Studies in Brazil , 2001

“Tactics and Terms of Struggle against Institutional Racism in the Police and Prison Sectors” (published in Portuguese) in Silvia Ramos and Leonarda Musemeci, eds. Elemento Suspeito: Abordagem policial e discriminaηγo na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, 2006

“Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolitanism, and Creating the New Cairo School of Urban Studies,” in Paul Amar and Diane Sigerman, eds. Cairo Cosmopolitan, 2006

"Saving Rio’s ‘Cradle of Samba’: Outlaw Uprisings, Racial Tourism and the Progressive State in Brazil." in Lisa Knauer and Daniel Walkowitz, eds. Narrating the Nation in Public Space, 2008

Works in Progress

The Security Archipelago: Police Militarization, Urban Sexual Outlaws, and the End of Neoliberalism (proposal under review by Duke University Press)

Brazil in the Middle East: South-South Relations, Mediations, and Recognitions edited with Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha Pinto.

“Police Praetorianism, Protection-Racket Governance, and the Non-Religious Origins of ‘Islamist’ Masculinities in Cairo”

“Introduction: Racial Missions of Contemporary Policing,” lead article for special journal issue I am editing for Ethnic and Racial Studies

“The Politics of Sexuality and the Struggle for Human Rights in the Middle East: Egyptian Activists Refuse to Choose between Anti-Imperialism and Sexual Justice” (with Nadine Naber), for Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies

“Giuliani’s Zero Tolerance, U.S. Police Experts Abroad, and the Geopolitics of Law-Enforcement Export,” in progress for submission to Law and Social Inquiry

Review of Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo.  For the International Journal of Middle East Studies (accepted, in press)

Eve Darian-Smith Professor Education: PhD, Anthropology, University of Chicago MA, Anthropology, Harvard University LLB and BA (Hons), University of Melbourne Phone: (805) 893-4743 Email: darian AT lawso.ucsb.edu

Research Interests: Social and legal theory, legal history, legal pluralism, racism, and issues of sovereignty particularly in relation to indigenous peoples.

Book Publications:

Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Anglo-American Law (forthcoming, under contract with Hart).

Culture, Custom, Power, Law: Implications of Legal Anthropology for the Study of Law (forthcoming, under contract with Blackwell) 

Editor.  Ethnography and Law. The International Library of Essays in Law and Society. Series editor: Austin Sarat. Ashgate (2007).

New Capitalists: Law, Politics and Identity Surrounding Casino Gaming on Native American Land. Wadsworth (2003). (Case studies in Contemporary Social Issues).

Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe.  University of California Press (1999). (Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association, 2000).

Co-editor with Peter Fitzpatrick.  Laws of the Postcolonial.  University of Michigan Press (1999).

Recent Special Issues, Articles and Chapters

Co-edited Symposium with Nick Buchanan. Law and Indigeneity: The Problematics of Origin and Authenticity. Law & Social Inquiry. (forthcoming) 

Editor of Special Issue. Rights and Regulations: New Directions in Socio-Legal Scholarship. Law & Policy (2008, forthcoming). 

Precedents of Injustice: Recovering Historical Context in Law and Society Scholarship. (Special issue “Law and Society Reconsidered”). Studies in Law, Politics and Society (2007). (in press)

“Ethnographies of Law”; Blackwell Companion to Law and Society, edited by Austin Sarat. Pp. 545-568 (2004).

“Savage Capitalists: Law and Politics Surrounding Indian Casino Operations in California”; Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.  Vol. 26:109-140 (2002).

“Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity and Territory in the New Europe”. (long version).  In Carol Greenhouse, Kay Warren and Elizabeth Merz (eds.) Ethnography in Unstable Places. Duke University Press. Pp. 249-275 (2002).

“Myths of ‘East’ and ‘West’: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong”.  In David Theo. Goldberg and Ato Quayson (eds) Relocating Postcolonialism.  Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 294-319 (2002).

“Putting Law in its Place in Native North America”. Special symposium coedited with Susan Gooding. Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 24(2) (2001).

“Rabies Rides the Fast Train: Transnational Interactions in Post-Colonial Times”. (reprint) In The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space. Edited by Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney and Richard T. Ford (eds). Oxford: Blackwell (2001).

Current Editorial Positions
Journal of Legal Anthropology. Member, Editorial Advisory Board.
Studies in Law, Politics and Society. Member, Editorial Advisory Board.
Law & Society Review. Associate Editor (2003-2007)
Law & Social Inquiry.  Member, Editorial Advisory Board.
Social and Legal Studies. International Board Member
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Editorial Fellow.

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Lisa Hajjar Associate Professor Education: Ph.D. Sociology, The American University M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University B.A., International Relations, Tufts University Phone: (805) 893-7006 Email: lhajjar AT lawso.ucsb.edu Curriculum Vitae

Affiliations at UCSB: Sociology, Religious Studies, Global & International Studies, and the Center for Middle East Studies.

Research Interests: Human rights, international law, race, gender, sexuality, nationalism and ethnicity, peace and conflict, contemporary Middle East including US policy in the region.

Recent Publications:
Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vols. 1-5. Co-edited with Richard Falk and Hilal Elver. Routledge (2008).

Human Rights Law, Executive Powers, and Torture in the Post-9/11 Era. In Alice Bullard, editor, Human Rights in Crisis. Ashgate (2008). 

Politically Engaged Scholarship and the Practice of Human Rights (review essay). Contemporary Sociology, in progress.

Rights at Risk: Why the Right Not To Be Tortured Is Important to You. Studies in Law, Politics and Society, forthcoming.

International Humanitarian Law and “Wars on Terror”: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and American Doctrines and Policies. Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 36, no. 1 (2006).

An Army of Lawyers. The Nation (2005).

Torture and the Lawless “New Paradigm.” Middle East Report Online (2005).

In the Penal Colony (review essay). The Nation (2005). 

Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza. University of California Press (2005).

Towards a Sociology of Human Rights: Critical Globalization Studies, International Law, and the Future of War. In William Robinson and Richard Appelbaum, editors, Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics. Routledge (2005). 

Torture and the Future. Middle East Report Online, http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/hajjar_interv.html (2004).

Torture and the Politics of Denial. In These Times, vol. 28, no. 15 (2004).

Our Heart of Darkness. Amnesty Now, vol. 30, no. 2 (2004).

Human Rights. In Austin Sarat, editor, The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society, Blackwell Publishers (2004).

Domestic Violence and Shari’a: A Comparative Study of Muslim Societies in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In Lynn Welchman, editor, Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform, Zed Press, 2004.

Chaos as Utopia: International Criminal Prosecution as a Challenge to State Power. Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, vol. 31 (2004).

Religion, State Power and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies: A Framework for Comparative Analysis. Law and Social Inquiry, vol. 29 (2004).

From Nuremberg to Guantanamo: International Law and American Power Politics. Middle East Report, no. 229 (Winter 2003).

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Elvin Hatch

Professor Emeritus

Education:

PhD, Anthropology, UCLA

Email:ehatch4091 AT aol.com

Research Interests: History of anthropology, anthropological theory, the cultural dimension of rural communities in the US and New Zealand; current research focuses on the processes of modernity as a cultural force in the mountain South (US).

Recent Publications:
Theories of Man and Culture. (1973) Columbia University Press, New York.

Biography of a Small Town. (1979) Columbia University Press, New York.

Culture and Morality: The Relativity of Values in Anthropology. (1983) Columbia University Press, New York.

"Theories of Social Honor." American Anthropologist, 91:341-53. (1989)

Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand. (1992) University of California Press, Berkeley.

"A Humanistic Theory of Theory." (1997) Cultural Dynamics, 9:301-24.

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Kathleen M. Moore Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst Phone: (805) 893-7537 Email: kmoore AT lawso.ucsb.edu

Research Interests: Immigration, Muslim communities in the West (e.g., U.S., U.K.), religion and law, Islamic law, civil rights and liberties, cultural pluralism, cultural studies.

Recent Publications:
"'United We Stand': American Attitudes toward (Muslim) Immigration Post- September 11th." Muslim World vol. 92, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 39- 58.

"A Part of US or A Part from US? Post September 11th Attitudes towards Muslims and Civil Liberties in the United States." MERIP vol. 32, no. 3 (Fall 2002), pp. 32-35.

"The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998." In Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith (eds.), Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2002.

"The Hijab and Religious Liberty: U.S. Anti-Discrimination Law and Muslim Women in the United States." Yvonne Y. Haddad and John L. Esposito(eds.).

Muslims on the Americanization Path?: 129-158. Atlanta: Scholars Press (cloth, 1998) and Oxford University Press (paper 1999).

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Jacqueline Stevens Associate Professor Research Associate Game, Culture, and Technology Lab, University of California at Irvine Education: PhD Political Science, University of California at Berkeley 1993 MA Political Science, University of California at Berkeley 1985 AB Government, Smith College 1984 Phone: (805) 893-7477 Email: jstevens AT lawso.ucsb.edu Web: www.jacquelinestevens.org and stateswithoutnations.blogspot.com

Research Interests: Jacqueline Stevens writes about how laws create hereditary membership groups that seem to be natural. Her focus is on the role law plays in constituting the nation, ethnicity, race, family, kinship, and sexuality. These groups inspire passionate attachments causing systemic violence and inequality, seen especially in crises of war, restrictions of movement among states, inheritance, marriage, and private ownership of land. Stevens also writes about the role of government research in constituting taxonomies of race and ethnicity through the research done on the Human Genome Project. She is presently finishing two book manuscripts: States without Nations and The Human Being Project. Professor Stevens was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University, 1997-1999. Another major research commitment is coordinating the development of an online global politics game through the website www.agoraxchange.net.

Selected Publications:

Reproducing the State (Princeton University Press, 1999).

Recreating the State, Third World Quarterly 27 (2006): 755-766.

Sigmund Freud and International Law, Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities 2 (2006): 201-217.

Pregnancy Envy and the Politics of Compensatory Masculinities, Gender and Politics 1 (2006): 265-294.

Racial Meanings and Scientific Methods: Policy Changes for NIH-funded Publications Reporting Human Variation Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, 28 (6) (December 2003): 1033-1098.

The Morals of Genealogy, Political Theory 31 (4) (August 2003): 558-588. If not a subscriber, click here.

Symbolic Matter: DNA and Other Linguistic Stuff, Social Text 20 (1), (Spring, 2002): 106-140.

agoraXchange, with Natalie Bookchin and Zeljko Blace. Commissioned by Tate Online. Launched March 15, 2004, available at www.agoraxchange.net.

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Heidi Hoechst Lecturer Education: Ph.D., Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, San Diego M.A., Literature in English, University of California, San Diego B.A., English and Women's Studies, University of Minnesota at Morris Email: hhoechst AT lawso.ucsb.edu
Siobhan King Brooks Lecturer Education: Ph.D., Sociology, New School University M.A., Sociology, New School University B.A., Women's Studies, San Francisco State University Email: kings957 AT newschool.edu
Robin Unander Lecturer Education: J.D., Southwestern University, School of Law B.A., Law and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara Email: unander AT lawso.ucsb.edu

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