This semester I’ll be teaching an undergraduate seminar titled “Law and Political Thought: Punishment.” The course will introduce students to the complex role law plays in society through the issue of punishment. We’ll discuss both court cases and case-studies, focusing on the eighth amendment, and those discussions will be enriched by reading an eclectic mix of social and political thinkers. [Ad for the course is below, and a draft of the syllabus is available here.]
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Starting at the end of August, I’ll be a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law (PPL) at the University of Virginia. The position is for two years, potentially renewable for a third. I’m eager to be a part of the vibrant intellectual community at UVa, to write and to teach, and to extend the research agenda developed in my dissertation. [Linked here.]
I’m leading a year-long colloquium for political science students at the University of Chicago. A first draft of my syllabus is now posted.
I’m teaching the third part of the three-part Classics of Social and Political Thought (CSPT) sequence at the University of Chicago this quarter. A first draft of my syllabus is now posted.
Next Wednesday I’ll be giving a lecture on race and mass incarceration to the students in Cathy Cohen’s Contemporary African American Politics course.
Allen Linton II and I will be giving a talk this afternoon to students at Kelly High School on voter ID laws and the politics of voter suppression.
A draft syllabus for my course (“The Politics of Mass Incarceration”) is now posted on Chalk. The syllabus is publicly available here. [updated 3.23.2012]
Good news! My course idea for the PACE Institute at the Cook County Jail was just approved. Starting in October, I’ll be teaching a seminar titled Social & Political Problems.
I’m teaching a self-designed seminar in the spring titled The Politics of Mass Incarceration in the U.S. The course description has just been added to the political science course catalog (accessible here).
Christopher D. Berk 