Law and Society

Course Title: Sovereignty and Personhood: Political Rights, Indigenous America, and the Orgins of International Law

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Law and Society is a seminar that examines a series of theological and juridical arguments in the context of the incremental development of international law as it pertains to human rights, political citizenship, and sovereign states, while considering the modern resonances of those debates in the persistence of certain cultural narratives. 

Catherine Jones

Catherine A. Jones is associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  She is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, with interests in the broad Civil War era, slavery and emancipation, the American South, and the history of children and childhood.

Waverly Duck

Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer and the North Hall Chair Endowed Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press, 2015), a finalist for the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award.

Andrew Devereux

Andrew Devereux is an historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean at UC San Diego.  He earned his Ph.D. in 2011 from the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University.  In his scholarship, Professor Devereux approaches the history of the Mediterranean from a global perspective, examining the Sea’s connections to the wider world, particularly those forces that brought the region into contact with Northern Europe, with West Africa, with Central Asia, as well as with the maritime systems of the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Timothy McNeil

Tim McNeil is the Director of the UC Davis Design Museum, and a Professor of Design at the University of California Davis, where he is the primary instructor for courses on exhibition design and environmental graphic design.

Lishan Az

Lishan AZ is a multi-disciplinary artist working in immersive installation, interactive media, photography and film. She explores themes of home, intimacy, and interiority. Her work revives lost narratives in order to contextualize contemporary issues and discover/recover possibilities for our present condition.  She is currently an assistant professor of cinema and digital media at the University of California, Davis.

Erica Sedlander

Dr. Erica Sedlander is an Assistant Professor and Social and Behavioral Scientist at UCSF. Her research portfolio seeks to uncover mechanisms to help women achieve their reproductive goals throughout the life course (from pregnancy prevention to infertility prevention).

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