Hampshire College

Jennifer Hamilton, assistant professor of legal studies and anthropology, received her B.A. in anthropology and English literature (McGill University) and her Ph.D. in anthropology (Rice University).

Her interests include social studies of law, science, and biomedicine, theories of culture and identity, and critical race and gender studies.

She is the author of Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts, forthcoming from Routledge. Her most recent research examines human genetic variation research and the sociocultural, legal, and ethical formations which emerge around it.

Affiliations
Law Program
School of Critical Social Inquiry

Recent Courses
CSI-0113: Injury (Spring 2012)
CSI-0201: Ethnography of Law, Science, & Medicine (Spring 2012)
CSI-0192: Law and Society (January 2012)
CSI-0218: Bioethics in a Post-Genomic Age (Fall 2011)