Susan   Sterett

• Professor
• 473 Sturm Hall
• 303-871-2057
• ssterett@du.edu

Focus:

Susan Sterett will be on leave from the University of Denver from August 1, 2011 until July 2013. She will be serving as a Program Officer for the Law and Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation.

Background:

PhD Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California, Berkeley, 1987

Interests:

Law and society; American political development; social welfare in Western post-industrial states, citizenship

Publications:

"Need and Citizenship after Disaster" Natural Hazards Review 13(3): Pp. 233-245 (August 2012).

“State Policy and Disaster Assistance: listening to women”  Pp. 118-129. In Women of Katrina (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012).

“New Orleans Everywhere: bureaucratic accountability and housing policy after Katrina.” Pp. 83-115. In Austin Sarat and Javier Lezaun, eds., Catastrophe: law, politics, and the humanitarian impulse. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009)

“Parents and Paperwork: same sex parents, birth certificates, and emergent legality.” Pp. 103-119. In Scott Barclay, Mary Bernstein and Anna-Maria Marshall, eds. Queer Mobilizations: LGBT activists confront the law.(New York University Press, 2009)

Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850s-1937 (Cornell University Press, 2003)

Creating Constitutionalism? Lawyers and Administrative Accountability in Britain (University of Michigan Press, 1997)

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