CRIMINAL JUSTICE - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor
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Alan Rubel is an associate professor in the iSchool and in the Center for Law, Society, and Justice. In 2012 he served as a senior advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before joining the faculty at UW he was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Law Policy at Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University. He served as a law clerk to Justice Ann Walsh Bradley of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 2006-2008. His publications include articles on public health surveillance, philosophical conceptions of privacy, labeling genetically engineered foods, the medical privacy of presidential candidates, the USA Patriot Act, and persons' claims to privacy. His current research includes projects on public health surveillance, privacy in the context of libraries and electronic resources, and foundations of criminal law. Before graduate school he worked as a biological technician and ranger for the National Park Service.
Alexandra Huneeus studies international courts, international human rights, and courts and politics in Latin America. Her work stands at the intersection of law, political science and sociology, and has been published in the American Journal of International Law, Law and Social Inquiry, Yale Journal of International Law, Cornell International Law Journal and by Cambridge University Press. In 2013, she was awarded the American Association for Law Schools Scholarly Papers Prize, as well as the American Society for Comparative Law Award for Younger Scholars (for two different articles). Currently, she holds an NSF grant to explore the impact of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on domestic prosecutions of state atrocity. She is Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, received her PhD, JD and BA from University of California, Berkeley, and was a post-doc at Stanford's Center on Development, Democracy and the Rule of Law. Professor Huneeus is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, and is a founding board member of the Brazilian Journal of Empirical/Socio-Legal Studies. She holds a permanent visiting professorship at the Universidad Diego Portales Law School in Santiago, Chile.
Carolyn Lesch earned her Master's in Social Work from UW Madison in 1992. She first joined the Criminal Justice Certificate Program staff as a Field Instructor during the summer of 1998. From 2003 to 2020, she served as Academic Advisor, Lecturer and Program Administrator. She managed the internship component for Criminal Justice Certificate and Legal Studies students, including vital outreach to the criminal and juvenile justice communities and legal institution placements. Carolyn developed and taught an internship preparatory course, Legal Studies 405: Foundations of Field Education as well as Legal Studies/ Sociology 694: Field Observation in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies. Carolyn has more than 20 years of direct practice experience working with court-ordered youth and their families. Carolyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her areas of expertise include adolescent development, child and adolescent mental health, juvenile male sexual offending behavior, multigenerational and interfamilial sexual abuse dynamics, and family systems theory and intervention. In addition to her roles with the Center for Law, Society, and Justice, Carolyn is a Senior Preceptor in the UW-Madison School of Social Work.
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- Associate Scientist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Healthy Minds
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Daniel Grupe, Ph.D., is an Associate Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Healthy Minds. His research utilizes a community-engaged, mixed methods approach to investigate the benefits of mindfulness and related contemplative practices for promoting resilient responses to stress and trauma. With funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the UW-Madison ICTR, and in collaboration with community-based organizations that serve justice-impacted individuals, he is currently working to develop, implement, and evaluate peer-facilitated and strength-based approaches to support mental health during the transition from prison back into the community. This work will examine the impact of enhanced mental health and well-being on distal outcomes of reentry success, community reintegration, and community well-being. In research funded by the National Institute of Justice and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, he has also conducted research on the benefits of mindfulness training for police officer stress and well-being.
David J. Pate, Jr. is currently a Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Human Ecology, Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Consumer Science and an Associate Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Social Work department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare (on leave) and an Affiliated Associate Professor at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Pate's research projects involve examining the life course events of Black adult males thorough the use of qualitative research methods. His research examines the social and economic determinants of poverty for Black males, as well as variables such as legal barriers and previous traumatic experiences that may affect their adult well-being. He is a member of the Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Wellbeing of African American Males.
Dustin Brown joined the legal writing faculty in 2018 after nearly a decade in private practice, most recently with Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. in Madison. He has litigated in state and federal courts in matters ranging from defamation, public records access, and electoral redistricting to insurance coverage, products liability, and deceptive trade practices.
From 2009 to 2011, Professor Brown clerked for the Hon. John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, and the Hon. Thelton E. Henderson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. He began his legal career at Bingham McCutchen, LLP in San Francisco.
Professor Brown earned his Bachelor's degree in English from Yale University and his law degree from New York University School of Law, both magna cum laude. As a law student, he was a member of NYU Law's Immigrant Rights Clinic, and he interned with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Make the Road New York. He also served as an executive editor of the NYU Law Review.
Before practicing law, Professor Brown worked as a reporter for a chain of weekly newspapers in Queens, New York, and he taught English in Quito, Ecuador.
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- Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate
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Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and will begin teaching as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the fall of 2024. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and a postdoctoral fellow with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research interests include political violence and post-conflict politics, transitional justice, and human rights globally, including in the United States. She has published in Perspectives on Politics and the Journal of Human Rights. Prior to obtaining her PhD, she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in their Office of International Affairs.
Howard S. Erlanger served as Director of the Legal Studies Program and the Criminal Justice Certificate Program from 2007-2013. A member of the UW faculty since 1971, he is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, Emeritus, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Professor Erlanger is the recipient of a number of awards for his teaching and research, including the Steiger and Underkofler awards from the University for excellence in teaching, and the Wheeler mentorship award from the Law and Society Association. Professor Erlanger is a past-President of the Law and Society Association and since 1982 he has been Review Section Editor of Law and Social Inquiry, where he has solicited and edited over 400 article-length essays representing the great diversity of views in socio-legal studies. His own socio-legal research has primarily focused on the legal profession - especially on the careers of lawyers in public interest practice and the socialization of law students - and on topics related to dispute resolution and to law and organizations.
Ion Meyn teaches Civil Rights and Criminal Injustice in America. An Associate Professor at the law school, his research focuses on criminal procedure. Professor Meyn clerked for Federal District Judge Bernice Donald, who now serves on the Sixth Circuit. In private practice, he represented judges, elected officials, and political action committees. Professor Meyn also served as clinical faculty at the Wisconsin Innocence Project. He led the legal team that freed Seneca Malone from being wrongfully convicted of intentional homicide, and also served on the team that successfully argued for a new trial for Terry Vollbrecht.
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- Assistant Professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Title: Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources
Jirs Meuris is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work sits at the intersection of behavioral science, human resource management, and public policy. Jirs looks at how work and organizations influence economic and demographic disparities in society. A proportion of this research is focused specifically on the management of people within law enforcement organizations.
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- Director of the Restorative Justice Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School 's Frank J. Remington Center
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Jonathan Scharrer is the Director of the Restorative Justice Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School's Frank J. Remington Center. He has extensive experience as a facilitator of victim-offender dialogues in sensitive and serious crimes and as a trainer in a variety of restorative justice practices. Jonathan is active in examining criminal justice policy-with a focus on victim-empowerment and addressing racial disparities in the criminal justice system-and has helped design and implement multiple restorative justice diversion programs and restorative responses to crime. Additionally, Jonathan currently serves as an elected member of the advisory council for the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice.
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- Professor of Classical Judaism
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Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the literature, law, and social history of the rabbinic movement in general and, in particular, on rabbinic food regulations. He is the author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2020); The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Cambridge University Press, 2010), as well as the co-editor of Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food (New York University Press, 2019); and Religious Competition in the Third Century C.E.: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2014). Currently, he is working on a co-edited volume, entitled Animals and the Law in Antiquity (SBL Press, expected 2021), and beginning research on a new book, provisionally entitled Jews and The Pig: A History, which will explore the long association between Jews and the pig.
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- Associate Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin
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Joseph Conti is an associate professor of sociology and law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008 and was a post-doctoral scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Professor Conti specializes in sociology of law and economic sociology and teaches classes related to globalization, global governance, American society, and the sociology of law. His research interests include global governance, law and globalization, and international trade, particularly the dispute settlement systems of the World Trade Organization. His current research focuses on multilevel regulatory regimes for trade and for nanotechnology.
Professor Conti has published articles on the World Trade Organization in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Socio-Economic Review. With co-authors he has published articles related to nanotechnology in Environmental Science & Technology, Nature Nanotechnology, and the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. His book, Between Law and Diplomacy: the Social Contexts of Disputing at the World Trade Organization, is forthcoming in 2010 from Stanford University Press. This book is based on his dissertation, which received the Lancaster Dissertation Award from the University of California, Santa Barbara for the best social science dissertation completed between 2008 and 2010.
Josh Mayers retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in February 2018, and he has 34 years of law enforcement experience. He spent seven years working as a police officer/investigator in New York City and 27 years with the FBI as a Special Agent. In 1985, Josh earned his B.S. in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City; his J.D. in 1991 from Kent College of Law in Chicago, and he completed his Masters Degree from Boston University in December 2019, in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Josh is a graduate of the 263 rd Session of the FBI National Academy and a member of Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal Justice Honor Society.
With the FBI, Josh worked most investigative programs, to include violent crime, drugs, gangs, bank robberies, public corruption and fraud cases. He worked counterterrorism matters for over ten years, with numerous deployments to the Middle East and Africa. He was an FBI Firearms Instructor, Hostage Negotiator, spent sixteen years on SWAT, he taught interviewing and interrogation, and undercover operations to local, state and international law enforcement officers. Josh has published four articles including "Catching a Chinese IP Thief: How the FBI Tracked and Caught Sinovel" - The Cipher Brief, April 2018.
Josh was the FBI Case Agent for the seven year long Sinovel Wind Group investigation, which involved the theft of proprietary software by Sinovel, an 18% Chinese State Owned Enterprise, and at one time the third largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world. In 2013, Sinovel was indicted in the Western District of Wisconsin, the corporation along with three individuals were charged with conspiracy and theft of trade secrets for stealing the intellectual Property of AMSC, a U.S. company headquartered in Devens, MA., with offices in Wisconsin, Beijing, and Austria. Sinovel first attempted to hack AMSC's software in 2010, and in response AMSC installed protective measures to include encryption and a timing limitation to protect its wind turbine control system software. In 2011, Sinovel recruited a disgruntled AMSC engineer and manager in the AMSC Austria office, and offered him a $1.7 million contract. This insider, stole AMSC's software, removed the protective measures in place and transmitted it to Sinovel R&D managers in Beijing. The economic harm to AMSC that resulted from this theft is estimated at approximately $1.2 billion and approximately 600 jobs. Sentencing in the Sinovel case was July 6, 2018.
Josh has worked as Field Instructor from 2015 to the present, in the Legal Studies/Sociology 694: Field Observation in Criminal Justice & Legal Studies course through the Center for Law, Society, & Justice.
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- Associate Professor of History
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Karl Shoemaker is Associate Professor of History and Law. He holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from Cumberland School of Law. He is a legal historian, with particular focus on pre-modern legal traditions. His research and teaching interests include the history of criminal law and punishment, and historical and philosophical approaches to the institutions of modern criminal justice. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Law Culture and the Humanities. In 2006-07, Professor Shoemaker was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has also held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the North American Conference on British Studies. He is currently working on the history of the right to sanctuary as well as a set of medieval texts which imagined the devil as a litigant. Recent publications include (with William Courtenay) "The Tears of Nicholas: Simony and Perjury by a Parisian Master of Theology in the Fourteenth Century," Accepted by Speculum (forthcoming, 2008); "Revenge as a ‘Medium Good' in the Twelfth Century" in 1 Law, Culture, and Humanities, 333-358 (2005); "The Birth of Official Criminal Prosecutions in American Law" in Rechtssystem im Vergleich: Die Staatsanwaltschaft (2005), The Problem of Pain in Punishment: A Historical Perspective," in Pain, Death, and the Law (A. Sarat, ed., 2001); and "Criminal Procedure in Medieval European Law: A Comparison Between English and Roman-Canonical Developments after the IV Lateran Council," Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte - Kanonistische Abteilung (1999).
Kiara Hibler is in private practice as both a Mitigation Specialist and a Defense-Victim Outreach (DVO) liaison, working primarily on state and federal capital cases. A mitigation specialist is responsible for thoroughly investigating the life history of a defendant facing the death penalty as a possible sentence; a DVO liaison serves as a bridge between the victim survivors of a homicide and the team representing a defendant. Kiara has also worked on cases of incarcerated individuals who were sentenced as juveniles to life without parole (JLWOP) and who, in light of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, have the opportunity for re-sentencing hearings. Prior to working within in the criminal legal system, Kiara taught in early childhood and K-12 education, with a focus on supporting bilingual and at-risk students and their families.
As a first-generation student whose education path was non-traditional, Kiara benefited greatly from the support and opportunities she was afforded while a student at UW-Madison. She has been a field instructor and advisor for the Legal Studies and Criminal Justice internship program since 2018 and enjoys working with students as they explore their academic and career goals.
Kiara currently serves as Staff Assembly Representative for district #418.
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- Advisor for the Legal Studies Program
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Martine Delannay is the academic advisor for the Legal Studies Program and Criminal Justice Certificate Program. She received her M.A. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. in Sociology with an interdisciplinary minor in Women Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught sociology courses at UW-Madison, Madison College, and Mount Mary College and received a Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching by a Teaching Assistant while a graduate student in sociology. Martine previously worked as an administrator for youth soccer organizations and as a community development consultant for a council that promoted independent living for persons with disabilities.
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- Advisor and Program Administrator for the Legal Studies Program
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Micha Schwab is an academic advisor and program administrator for the Legal Studies Program and Criminal Justice Certificate Program. She graduated from UW-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies and Political Science with a certificate in criminal justice. She interned at U.S. Probation and Pre-trial Services for the Western District of Wisconsin to earn her certificate in criminal justice. She also lived in South Africa for a semester during her junior year interning at a child right's organization and at the Cape Town Refugee Center.
Micha graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School with a concentration in criminal law. During law school, she interned at the Restorative Justice Clinic, Federal Defender Services, and Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office. She volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and as a mentor for a child whose parent was directly impacted by incarceration. She was a teaching assistant for criminal law and for human sexuality, where she lectured on intimate partner violence.
After law school, she worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Domestic Violence Unit at the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office prosecuting intimate partner violence. She transferred to Racine County District Attorney's Office prosecuting misdemeanor and traffic offenses. Micha moved to the felony division and focused on prosecuting felony drug, firearm, domestic violence, and animal offenses. After prosecuting for five years, she transitioned to civil practice where she defends clients facing professional and premises liability claims, construction disputes, and personal injury lawsuits.
Michael F. Caldwell, Psy.D. is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Senior Staff Psychologist at the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center. He currently serves as Past President of the Wisconsin Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Dr. Caldwell has provided clinical treatment and risk assessment services for violent adolescent offenders including adolescent sexual offenders, and he has conducted research into risk assessment methods and the effectiveness of treatment interventions with adolescent offenders with callous/unemotional traits. He is currently a Co-Principle Investigator on NIMH grants investigating the neuroscience of aggression and changes in the adolescent brain associated with effective treatment. He is also a consultant to the Urban Institute and the MIND Research Network at the University of New Mexico. He has served as a consultant to the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Juvenile Justice, the National Academy of Sciences Sackler International Scientific Forum on Neuroscience and the Law, Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University, and the Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, among many others. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to risk assessment and treatment of violent adolescent delinquents and adolescent sexual offenders.
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- Professor of Sociology
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Michael Light is a Professor of Sociology and Chicano and Latino Studies. His teaching and research interests largely focus on the legal and criminological consequences of international migration, and the relationship between racial/ethnic stratification and crime. Current projects in these areas examine the punishment of non-U.S. citizens before and after 9/11 as well as the relationship between undocumented immigration and violent crime. Recent publications include "Citizenship and Punishment: The Salience of National Membership in U.S. Criminal Courts" (American Sociological Review); "Explaining the Gaps in White, Black and Hispanic Violence since 1990: Accounting for Immigration, Incarceration, and Inequality" (American Sociological Review); Re-examining the Relationship between Latino Immigration and Racial/Ethnic Violence" (Social Science Research); and "Undocumented Immigration, Drug Problems, and Driving under the influence (DUI), 1990-2014" (American Journal of Public Health).
Mike Massoglia served as the Director of the Legal Studies Program and the Criminal Justice Certificate Program from 2013 to 2017. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work focuses on the social consequences of the expansion of the penal system, the relationship between the use of legal controls and demographic change in the United States, and patterns and consequences of criminal behavior over the life course. Current research projects examine historical variation in U.S. criminal deportations as well as the relationship between incarceration and neighborhood attainment and racial composition. Mike teaches classes on criminology, delinquency, and deviance.
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- Anna Julia Cooper Fellow
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Michaela Simmons is an Anna Julia Cooper fellow and will begin teaching as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in 2024. Her research addresses the enduring consequences of racial inequality in the American welfare state through an examination of social citizenship, family, and childhood. Her current book project is a study of the racial politics of foster care development in the early twentieth century. Recent publications include "The Racial Origins of Foster Home Care: Black Family Responsibility in the Early Welfare State, New York City, 1930s-1960s" in the Du Bois Review and "Becoming Wards of the State: Race, Crime, and Childhood in the Struggle for Foster Care Integration, 1920s to 1960s" in the American Sociological Review.
Mitra Sharafi is a legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She holds law degrees from Cambridge (BA 1998) and Oxford (BCL 1999) and history degrees from McGill (BA 1996) and Princeton (PhD 2006). She has taught at the UW Law School and Legal Studies program since 2007, and is affiliated with the UW History Department and Center for South Asia. Sharafi's research interests include South Asian legal history; the history of colonialism; the history of the legal profession; law and religion; law and minorities; legal pluralism; and the history of science and medicine. Her book, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) was awarded the Law and Society Association's 2015 J. Willard Hurst Prize for socio-legal history. Currently, she is completing a book project on forensic science in colonial India, and recently published an article on abortion in colonial India. Her next book project will be a global history of legal education, focusing on non-Europeans from around the world who studied law at London's Inns of Court during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sharafi's research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and others. She is a regular contributor to the Legal History Blog and hosts South Asian Legal History Resources. You can follow her on Twitter @mjsharafi.
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- Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work
- Title: Assistant Professor, Social Work
Pajarita Charles is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work at UW-Madison. Her research centers on the development, implementation, and testing of family-focused preventive interventions to promote positive outcomes for children and families affected by the criminal justice system. Dr. Charles' work also includes fostering research, practice, and public sector partnerships to build capacity for criminal justice reform. She is currently the principal investigator of a 5-year NICHD K99/R00 study that focuses on the development and testing of an intervention with fathers recently released from prison to improve parent and child outcomes through father engagement, high-quality parenting and relationship skills, and extended family involvement. She is also co-investigator of a study to improve family visits between children and parents incarcerated in jail through coaching during jail and home visits and using in-home video chat. She received her PhD from the School of Social Work at UNC-Chapel Hill and joint Master's degrees in social work and public administration from Columbia University.
Patricia Coffey is a Forensic Psychologist and UW-Madison Psych Department Faculty Associate. She has undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Ibero-American Studies from the UW-Madison and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Vermont. She has been in private practice in Madison for over 20 years providing treatment and forensic evaluation services. In addition to private practice, she also worked half-time for Mendota Mental Health Institute and the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center for 9 years. In 2014 she started working full time in the UW-Psych Department teaching The Criminal Mind: A Forensic and Psychobiological Perspective, Introductory Psychology, and Service Learning courses. She also trains and supervises a Ph.D. student in forensic assessment.
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- Associate Professor
- Member of the UW - Madison Teaching Academy
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Ralph Grunewald is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Center for Law, Society, and Justice. He currently is Mellon-Morgridge Professor of the Humanities. In his research, Ralph studies the relationship between law and the humanities with a focus on storytelling in law. Ralph received his law degree from the University of Mainz and the State of Bavaria, Germany, a Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Criminology from the University of Mainz (2002, summa cum laude) and a Master's Degree (LL.M.) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School (2005). He has taught at German law schools and practiced law at a law firm specializing on white collar and corporate crime defense work. At UW-Madison, Ralph teaches classes on American criminal justice, comparative criminal justice, law and literature, and true crime. He has published two books, the latest being "Narratives of Guilt and Innocence: The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases" (NYU Press 2023). Ralph has published various articles on questions of criminal law and legal narratology.
Ralph is a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy, the Athletic Board, and a Bradley Learning Community Faculty Fellow. He has received numerous teaching awards, among them the William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award (2017).
Richard Keyser's teaching and research interests focus on legal and environmental history. He teaches primarily for the Legal Studies Program, including a two-semester sequence on American Legal History (Legal Studies/History 261-262: to the Civil War, and from then to the Present) and Law and Environment (Legal Studies/Environmental Studies 430). He also teaches classes for the History Department, currently including European Environmental History (History/Environmental Studies 328). He has a Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and has appeared in Law and History, French Historical Studies, and Revue Historique. His current projects center on customary law, early property law, and community-based methods of woodland management.
Dr. Russ comes to research on the criminal legal system via a circuitous route. After receiving her PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland, she expanded her work into the Learning Sciences in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She joined the faculty of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UW Madison in 2012. In her work, she uses qualitative research methods to understand what kinds of knowledge and whose knowledge are valued in different learning contexts.
In 2019, she began exploring knowledge and learning in criminal legal contexts. Her work includes two strands. In the first, she supports the development and study of learning environments inside correctional facilities. As part of this work, she is the coordinator for the tutoring program inside the Dane County jail and is also the co-PI on a project putting a Bachelor Degree program inside Wisconsin prisons. In her second line of work, she studies what the public learns about incarceration by hearing the wisdom and stories of those directly impacted by the criminal legal system. She works closely with the statewide, community non-profit EXPO of Wisconsin (Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing) to conduct this work. In both of these strands, Dr. Russ seeks to understand whether and how people attribute knowledge to those who are formerly incarcerated. Central to all of Dr. Russ' work is a commitment creating authentic relationships with system-impacted individuals that are built on mutual respect and humility and which explicitly reject the common power dynamic where white university researchers set both the agenda and process for work with non-profits founded by people of color.
Suzanne Eckes is the Susan S. Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy, and Practice at the School of Education. Much of her research focuses on how civil rights laws impact education policies in K-12 public schools. She is a co-author or co-editor of several articles and books, including Legal Rights of School Leaders, Teachers and Students (8th ed., Pearson). She is a faculty affiliate with the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin School of Education, she was a professor at Indiana University, a lawyer, and a public high school teacher.
Tana Johnson (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science. Her work is driven by big puzzles in international relations and by important problems in the real world. In global affairs, what makes delegation and institutional design so challenging? Why do nation-states delegate to international institutions in spite of the challenges? And how could we get things to work better?
Johnson's research uses interviews, analyses of original data, archival research, formal models, and computer-assisted textual analysis. She examines the operations and design of international institutions, particularly those affiliated with the United Nations (UN) system. Her research has been published in top outlets such as International Organization, Journal of Politics, Review of International Political Economy, and Review of International Organizations.
Johnson's book Organizational Progeny: Why Governments are Losing Control over the Proliferating Structures of Global Governance (Oxford University Press, 2014, 2017) shows that in a variety of policy areas, global governance structures are getting harder for national governments to control. This is not only because the quantity and staffing of international organizations has mushroomed, but also because the people working in these organizations try to insulate any new organizations against governments' interference. Organizational Progeny won the International Studies Association's Alger Prize for the best book on international organization and multilateralism.
Johnson has received research fellowships from the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University, as well as the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University. She also has been an energy policy fellow through the Global Governance Futures (GGF) program, which brings together practitioners and academics from the United States, Japan, India, Germany, China, and Brazil. She is a research fellow with Earth System Governance. In addition, she has served as a faculty advisor and instructor for graduate students who intern in international governmental and non-governmental organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Credentials: Professor, Rehabilitation Counselor Education
- Professor
Timothy Tansey, Ph.D., CRC, CVE, Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Tansey received his Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a professor in the Rehabilitation Counselor Education program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Tansey has over 20 years experience as a rehabilitation counselor, educator, or rehabilitation researcher. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of applying novel technology in vocational rehabilitation and rehabilitation counselor education, evidence-based practices in vocational rehabilitation, self-regulation, and self-determination. Dr. Tansey has extensive experience in adapting technology and utilizing social media for knowledge translation and dissemination activities. Dr. Tansey is the principal investigator on the Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center for Quality Employment, a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. He is currently the principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or co-investigator on several other federally funded research or national technical assistance center grants from the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Social Security Administration and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research). These current projects seek to ascertain evidence-based practices in the vocational rehabilitation of youth with disabilities, identify employer practices in the recruitment, hiring, retention, and promotion of persons with disabilities, and provide technical assistance to state vocational rehabilitation toward increasing competitive, integrated employment of persons with disabilities living in areas of extreme poverty. Dr. Tansey has developed doctoral level training focused on online and hybrid pedagogy as well as established numerous online, hybrid, and technology-enhanced courses. He serves on the co-editor of the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin and on the editorial boards for numerous other journals.