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Susan Sterett, Professor & Department Chair

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Education

Ph.D. Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California, Berkeley

M. A.  Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California, Berkeley

B. A.   University of California, San Diego

Areas

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

Selected Publications

• 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)

Selected Honors and Awards

• National Sciecne Foundation, 2005-06      
• University of Denver Distinguished Scholar Award 2004
• Fulbright Lecturer Award to China, 2003
• Fulbright Lecture/Research Award to England (University of Warwick), 1995

Current Research

I am currently working on the coordination of services and payments for evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. This work on social welfare and dependency intersects with a larger project on paper and the production of identity in the late bureaucratic welfare state, which includes analysis of a politics of birth certificates for families with two parents of the same sex, of gender identity under the European Convention on Human Rights, and of documenting a household to claim benefits after Hurricane Katrina.

Courses Taught

CORE 2415 Belonging

PLSC 2810 Gender,Law & Public Policy

PLSC 2820 Civil Rights

PLSC 2861 Constitutional Development

PLSC 3290 Advanced Seminar: Law, Sex & Marriage

PLSC 3290 Advanced Seminar: Law & Regulation

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The University of Denver is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.