Jacqueline Stevens

Jacqueline Stevens teaches in the Law and Society Department at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Stevens writes about how laws create hereditary membership groups that seem to be natural. Her focus is on the role law plays in constituting the nation, ethnicity, race, family, kinship, and sexuality. These groups inspire passionate attachments causing systemic violence and inequality, seen especially in crises of war, restrictions of movement among states, inheritance, marriage, and private ownership of land. Stevens also writes about the role of government research in constituting taxonomies of race and ethnicity through the research done on the Human Genome Project. She is presently finishing two book manuscripts: States without Nations and The Human Being Project. Professor Stevens was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University, 1997-1999. Another major research commitment is coordinating the development of an online global politics game through the website www.agoraxchange.net.

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