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Alex Skitolsky
No full textThe Adams Center has contributed the most important set of resources for my undergraduate experience and has provided key support and opportunities to further my interest in the study of law and social justice.
In the fall of 2010, I began a year-long internship with the president judge of nearby Northumberland County. This internship has offered detailed exposure to both criminal and civil legal processes, bringing me in close contact to professional practitioners of the law and allowing me to observe courtroom proceedings on a level usually reserved for law school graduates.
This experience has greatly informed my interest in mental health law and forms therapeutic jurisprudence. The Adams Center has also contributed to the development of my own research, fostering collaborations with faculty in contemporary issues of law and society scholarship.
In August, I will present original research on the drug treatment courts with Michael Smyth at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Las Vegas, Nev.
In my future plans to pursue a Ph.D. in legal studies, I know that the Adams Center’s mentorship and support has made me a much more attractive candidate to prospective graduate programs.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/adams_scholars/1013/thumbnail.jp
Reviving the Dead
No full textPoetry. The poems in REVIVING THE DEAD are triggered by the death of the poet\u27s father, but they work to do more than narrate events. Centered by the long, title sequence, these poems come at death and grief, as well as faith and skepticism, from as many angles as the poet can muster, using science and religion, history and myth, popular culture, and what seem to be trivial oddities, to create a particular way of seeing that has drawn praise from writers, editors, and readers alike. The poems are polished but electric; they are dark but vibrant with love and longing. This collection brings us the characters, places, and incidents of narrative poetry, but it also rises to the exacting lyricism of a singular voice that connects us to what it means to be human.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1017/thumbnail.jp
Prison Rape: Law, Media and Meaning
No full textFocusing on discourse generated between 1969 and 2006 in the legal arena and in the print news media, the author takes an historical-interpretive approach to illuminate the role of cultural forces and attendant ideologies in shaping the contours of the phenomenon commonly known as prison rape. Locating this work within the sociology of punishment, the author employs frame analysis and draws on two previously unrelated literatures Garland\u27s cultural analytic model and constitutive legal scholarship to produce a genealogy of discourse about sexual assault in carceral settings as manifest in two important arenas of meaning making. In addition to providing a detailed analysis of the often counterintuitive relationship between these discourses over time, the book considers the recent unanimous passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (2003) at a highly punitive historical moment in a nation that has traditionally preferred to litigate rather than legislate questions around the treatment of those it incarcerates.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1042/thumbnail.jp
To Be, Or To Boondoggle ? That is the Question: The Conflicts of Art, Relief, and Economics within the Federal Theatre Project
Get PDFProduction of Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering: Maternal Subjects
No full textPhilosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry, taking up new themes, such as maternal aesthetics, and pursuing old ones in new ways, such as investigating stepmothering as it might inform and ground an ethics of care. The theoretical foci of the book include feminist, existential, ethical, aesthetic, phenomenological, social and political theories. These perspectives are then employed to consider many dimensions of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering, which are of central importance to human existence, but are only rarely discussed in philosophical cannons. Topics include pregnancy and embodiment, breast-feeding, representations – or the lack thereof – of pregnant and birthing women, adoption, and post-partum motherhood.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1048/thumbnail.jp
Edward Schumacher-Matos Lecture
Get PDFBorn in Colombia, Schumacher-Matos was in the U.S. illegally from age 14 until age 21, when he went to court, was allowed to declare his citizenship, and joined the Army to serve in Vietnam. He was educated at Vanderbilt University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, served as a Fulbright Fellow in Japan, and as a Bi-National Commission Fellow in Spain. He also was executive director of the Spanish Institute in New York, a nonprofit dedicated to U.S.-Spanish political, economic and cultural affairs. The Robert F. Kennedy Professor for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Schumacher-Matos is also a Shorenstein Fellow on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard\u27s Kennedy School of Government, where he teaches a graduate seminar on immigration from Latin America into the U.S. and is writing a book on the subject. Schumacher-Matos applies his rich experiences—immigrant, soldier, reporter, editor, publisher, author, ombudsman, professor, academic fellow—to his weekly, syndicated column on national and international affairs. His work has appeared in the influential journal Foreign Affairs, and he has published numerous op-ed articles, which, he says, express the value of human dignity over self-righteousness and realism over wishful thinking. His talk was the keynote address of Susquehanna University\u27s 16th annual Latino Symposium
