Homepage Highlights Archive

  • Criminalization of Low-Income Women

    On September 25, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will present "Degradation Ceremonies and the Criminalization of Low-Income Women" at a UConn Humanities Institute Luncheon Lecture Series.

  • Herbert Jacob Book Prize

    Professor Kaaryn Gustafson has been recognized with the Herbert Jacob Book Prize for her latest book, Cheating Welfare. The prize is given by the Law and Society Association and is intended to recognize new, outstanding work in law and society scholarship.

  • Incarceration in the US

    On April 26, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson participated in a "Salon at Stowe," a program of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Hartford, where she commented on incarceration in the United States.

  • Overpoliced and Underprotected

    On January 27, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be a panelist at the UCLA Law Review symposium, "Overpoliced and Underprotected: Women, Race,and Criminalization."

  • Cheating Welfare

    Professor Kaaryn Gustafson's new book published by NYU Press, Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty, challenges readers to question their assumptions about welfare policies, welfare recipients, and crime control policies in the United States. 

  • Law Teaching

    On June 17, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be a panelist at "Breaking Into Law Teaching - New England: The Pipeline to the Legal Academy" sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).

  • Poverty and Inequality

    On March 25, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be the keynote speaker for the Interdisciplinary Group on Poverty and Inequality’s Third Annual Conference at the University of Michigan.

     

     

  • Searching for Equality

    On March 18, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be a featured speaker at “Searching for Equality” at a conference sponsored by The Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) at the UC Irvine School of Law.

  • Race and Cultural Identity

    On March 10, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be a featured speaker for "Race and Cultural Identity in the Working Environment" at Shipman and Goodwin LLP's Hartford office.

  • The Color of the Economic Crisis

    Professor Kaaryn Gustafson has co-chaired the organizing committee for the Eighth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc (LatCrit) to be held at the Sturm College of Law on October 7 and 8.

  • Bathrooms, Non-Ideal Bodies, and the Law

    On September 10, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will present her paper "Without a Pot: Bathrooms, Non-Ideal Bodies, and the Law" at the Third National People of Color Scholarship Conference.

  • Fighting Subtle Discrimination

    Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be a featured speaker at UConn's Women for Women Symposium on May 12.

  • Teaching, Authenticity and Critical Reflection

    On October 1 Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be a panelist for  "On Pedagogy: Teaching, Authenticity, and Critical Reflection" at the SALT LatCrit Junior Faculty Workshop.

  • Gustafson Presents on CRT

    On April 3, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will moderate a panel titled "Reflections on Critical Race Theory" at a conference at the University of Iowa.

  • Gustafson Wins Award

    Professor Kaaryn Gustafson received the 2009 Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award from the Association of American Law Schools.