Susan Marie Sterett

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University of Denver
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Political Science
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 1993

Mailing Address

East Evans at University Blvd.
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80208
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (303) 871-2136
Fax: (303) 871-2045
ssterett@diana.cair.du.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 1987.
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 1983.
B.A., University of California, San Diego, Political Science, 1980.

Expertise and Research Interests

I am interested in the historical development of the administrative state. I do comparative work between Britain and the United States. I have worked on the creation of legal forms for governing within bureaucracies. Currently I am working on how constitutionality shaped social welfare spending in the early twentieth century United States. I am also extending a research project on immigration law and politics in Britain. I am interested in how law and legal rights are sometimes used against the dominant meanings of those who initially drafted laws and rights. In this instance, British immigration law has been extremely hostile to refugees and people from the Indian sub-continent. Yet lawyers have been able to challenge the meanings of those laws in particular cases. I am interested in how that is done.

Other Expertise

Academic Experience:In the fall of 1995 I had a Fulbright research/lecture award at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. I also received a research award from the American Philosophical Society. In 1995 I also received a summer fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Iowa.I was the program chair for the 1995 Law and Society Association meetings in Toronto. Since 1995 I have served on the executive committee for the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association.I also served on the prize committee for the women and politics section of the American Political Science Association. I have served on the prize committee for best graduate student paper for the law and politics section for the American Political Science Association. In 2000-2001 I am chairing the committee for the best dissertation prize for the Law and Society Association. I have reviewed manuscripts for numerous journals and presses, including Law and Society Review, Women and Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press and SUNY Press. I have also reviewed proposals for the National Science Foundation.Business Experience:I served as a consultant to the state of New York on minority and women owned businesses from 1990 through 1992.I have provided interviews to the media on sexual harassment, feminism, employment discrimination and Supreme Court appointments.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

American History, Citizenship, Civil Law, Civil Or Human Rights, Comparative Government Or Politics, Government Regulations, History of Law, Jurisprudence, Law.

Additional Terms:

American History, Citizenship, Civil and Human Rights, Comparative Government, Government Regulations, History of Law, Jurisprudence.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

French: (Functional, Basic, None)
Spanish: (Basic, None, None)

Memberships

American Political Science Association
Law and Society Association
Western Political Science Association

Honors and Awards

1995, Fulbright Lecture/Research, CIES, Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, Immigration Rights
1995, Henry M. Phillips Research Award, American Philosophical Society, Constitutionalism and Social Spending
1995, Obermann Faculty Research Award, University of Iowa, Immigration Rights in Britain

Previous Positions

1986-1987, State University of New York at Binghamton, Lecturer
1987-1993, State University of New York at Binghamton, Assistant Professor

Funding Received

  • Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises, State of New York, 8/89 - 1992, $80, 000
  • Constitutionalism and Social Spending, State of New York, 1987 - 1988, $1000
  • Constitutionalism and Social Spending, American Philosophical Society, $2000, fall 1995-
  • Legal Rights in Immigration, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, $12000, fall 1995-winter 1996
  • Legal Rights in Immigration, University of Iowa, $3500, June 1995-July 1995

Publications

  • Susan Sterett, On Citizenship, Law and Society Review, 33(3), 777-794, 1999
  • Susan Sterett, European Rights, Immigration and Marriage, New Approaches to Comparative Law, 1999
  • Susan Sterett, Serving the State:constitutionalism and public pensions, 1860s-1920s, Law and Social Inquiry, 22(2), 1997
  • Susan Sterett, Domestic Violence and Immigration in Britain, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 20(2), 1997
  • Susan Sterett, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law: Public Pensions in the United States, 1860s-1920s, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 17(4), 587-610, 1997
  • Susan Sterett, "Entitled to Have a Hearing: Due Process in the 1890s," Social and Legal Studies, volume 3, 1994
  • Susan Sterett, "Daydreaming a Woman's Life," Studies in Law, Politics and Society, volume 14, 1994
  • Susan Sterett, "Judicial Review in Britain," Comparative Political Studies, volume 27, 1993
  • Susan Sterett, "Legality in Britain and the United States: toward an institutional explanation," Comparative Political Studies, 1992
  • Susan Sterett, Creating Constitutionalism? Professional Politics and Administrative Law in Britain, 1946-1994 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1996)
  • Caring About Individual Cases, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, eds., Cause Lawyering

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Last Updated: 10/17/2000

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