Jennifer Hamilton

Professor of Legal Studies and Anthropology

Critical Social Inquiry

jahSS@hampshire.edu

Mail Code CSI

Jennifer Hamilton

Franklin Patterson Hall G-6

413.559.5677

Teaching at Amherst College from Fall 2019-Spring 2022.

Jennifer Hamilton, professor of legal studies and anthropology, received her B.A. in anthropology and English literature from McGill University and her Ph.D. in anthropology from 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. Her most recent research examines human genetic variation research and the sociocultural, legal, and ethical formations that emerge around it.