Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies

Center Members

Law students as well as graduate students from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences have been involved in Center activities as research assistants and co-authors. Center involvement is growing and expanding to other units. Graduate students and law students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research with law faculty or have shown a high interest in such research, have the opportunity to become "Members" of the Center for a period of one year or more. Although this designation does not carry any monetary stipend, it recognizes and should further encourage student involvement.

As Members, these students are invited to participate in Center activities such as workshops, seminars, and special events. Members working on a research project may have the opportunity to present their work in the informal interdisciplinary setting. Members are encouraged to attend workshops and expand their interdisciplinary horizons.

Berger, Jane
Department of History | berger.155@osu.edu

Research Interests: Modern U.S. history, urban history, African American history and women's history

Bjornstrom, Eileen
Department of Sociology | bjornstrom.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Political economy of regulation, white collar and corporate crime

Bobbitt-Zeher, Donna
Department of Sociology | bobbitt-zeher.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Changing educational policies and their effects on social stratification and the impact of intimate partner violence policies on victim's well-being

Bodamer, Ben
Moritz College of Law | bodamer.2@osu.edu

Research Interests: Religious plurality; the evolution of religious ideology; and the interplay between psychotomimetic substances, in personal ritual, and the political control of such substances

Bridgeport, Pamela
Moritz College of Law | bridgeport.3@osu.edu

Research Interests: Property and wealth transfer, family and women's issues and intellectual property.

Carmichael, Jason
Department of Sociology | carmichael.41@osu.edu

Research Interests: Politics of crime control, political sociology, criminology

Clyburn, Tiffani
Department of English | clyburn.7@osu.edu

Research Interests: African American authors revisioning of traditional legal concepts (i.e., confession, testimony, evidence, etc.) critical race theory, critical legal studies

Cogley, Zac
Department of Philosophy | cogley.5@osu.edu

Research Interests: Responsibility and accountability in ethics and the law

Conley, Ryan
Moritz College of Law | conley.233@osu.edu

Research Interests: Influence of third parties on judicial decision making, corporate governance in the wake of corruption scandals and securities regulation, American history

Crites, Allison
Moritz College of Law | crites.33@osu.edu

Research Interests: International law, urban renewal, municipal and planning law

Curry, Brett
Department of Political Science | curry.130@osu.edu

Research Interests: Legislative-judicial interaction and the role Congress plays in apportioning federal jurisdiction

Debelak, Peter
Moritz College of Law | debelak.5@osu.edu

Research Interests: Theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics, the Supreme Court, including judicial biographies, labor law, international law

Dedino, Nathan
Department of Political Science | dedino.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Judicial politics

Fletcher, Christopher
Moritz College of Law | fletcher.90@osu.edu

Research Interests: Trial attorney with an emphasis in tax, property, buying land converting it into affordable housing for the poor

Fournet, Monique
Department of Political Science | fournet.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: State Courts, Judicial Selection, and Gender, Race and the Courts

Gerke, Brett
School of Public Policy and Management | gerke.3@osu.edu

Research Interests: Technology, privacy, open systems governance

Hinderliter, Emily
Moritz College of Law | hinderliter.2@osu.edu

Research Interests: Cultural anthropology and philosophy, social and cultural aspects and influences of the law, immigration and foreign affairs with law

Hodak, Kerry
Department of Political Science | hodak.2@osu.edu

Research Interests: Comparative study of judicial systems, the development of judicial systems in emerging democracies, and judicial decision-making

Ivanchenko, Roman
Department of Political Science | ivanchenko.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Judicial politics with concentration on interactions between the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress

Janssen, Brian
Department of Sociology | janssen.8@osu.edu

Research Interests: Political sociology, sociology of law, youth alienation, and the historical sociology focusing primarily on legal statutes

Kopko, Kyle C.
Department of Political Science | kopko.5@osu.edu

Research Interests: Public Law, Judicial Politics, U.S. Supreme Court and State Supreme Courts

Kowalski, Brian
Department of Sociology | kowalski.46@osu.edu

Research Interests: Recidivism and reentry, police and policing, neighborhoods and crime, multi-level modeling

Larrimer, Ben
Moritz College of Law | larrimer.19@osu.edu

Research Interests: Social science research on deliberative democracy

Lupo, Marian
Department of English | lupo.5@osu.edu

Research Interests: Intersections of law, rhetoric, disability studies, corporate governance and intellectual property, medieval, early modern, and contemporary historical periods

McKain, Aaron
Department of English | mckain.3@osu.edu

Research Interests: American political and legal rhetoric (particularly issues related to narrative and metaphor), hermeneutics, law as literature/law and literature

Miller, Banks
Department of Political Science | miller.3676@osu.edu

Research Interests: Interest groups in the courts, the implications of the attitudinal model for the legitimacy of judicial review, and federal appeals courts in general

Muccino, Lori
Department of Sociology | muccino.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Individual and multi-level determinants of deviance and crime, sociology of law, and the spatial distribution of crime

Nardacci, Cricket
Moritz College of Law | nardacci.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Education, disability discrimination, civil rights, and employment (labor and employment discrimination) and how each intersects with educational policy, particularly vis-a-vis university governance and administration

Pierce, Kathleen
Department of Psychology | pierce.194@osu.edu

Research Interests: Cognitive processes involved in stereotyping and prejudice, discrimination in legal and policy contexts, legal decision making, political psychology, use of analogies in information processing

Sasso, Michael
Center for Study and Teaching of Writing | sasso.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Disability law, the ADA, state and federal human rights legislation, forensic argumentative strategy, and the public performance of civil rights legislation

Schrock, Richelle
Department of Women's Studies | schrock.21@osu.edu

Research Interests: Transnational feminism and feminist ethnography, immigration studies

Simmons, Dawn
Department of English | simmons.175@osu.edu

Research Interests: Medieval literature, critical temporal studies, business and administrative communication, digital media, and social justice

Smith, Charles W.
Department of Political Science | smith.3280@osu.edu

Research Interests: Judicial politics, civil liberties, political extremism, gun control debate

St. Ledger, Megan
Moritz College of Law | st-ledger.1@osu.edu

Research Interests: Title IX issues, the works of Hannah Arendt, American politics, feminist legal theory, and women's studies

Tomlinson, Edward
Management & Human Resources | tomlinson.41@osu.edu

Research Interests: Role of trust in professional relationships, negotiation and dispute resolution, and employee deviance

Wittmer, Dana
Department of Political Science | wittmer.8@osu.edu

Research Interests: Judicial politics, gender and politics, and political psychology

Woltering, Catherine
Moritz College of Law | woltering.2@osu.edu

Research Interests: Empirical research and the interplay between law and culture, especially focused on women's rights