I’m on the academic job market this fall. Please get in touch if you want to learn more about me, my research, or my teaching.
Great news! My article on the Walpole prison rebellion — “On Prison Democracy: The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison” — has been accepted for publication at Critical Inquiry.
I’m one of two doctoral candidates selected for the new Master of Legal Studies (MLS) program at the University of Chicago Law School. The one-year degree program combines general 1L courses with advanced law courses relevant to my dissertation research. Tom Ginsburg will be my advisor through the program. I’m eager to elaborate, modify, and complicate the analysis of law in my research, and I’m confident that a joint degree with the Law School will advance that end.
I’ll be presenting in-progress work on youth politics at the Chicago Area Behavior (CAB) Workshop with Cathy Cohen on May 8. Guild Lounge, Northwestern University. [Program available here.]
I’ll be the discussant for Jon Elster (Columbia) at the Comparative Politics Workshop on April 15. Prof. Elster will be presenting his paper “The Political Psychology of Constitution Making.” 5 p.m., Wilder House.
Great news. Both of my organized panels have been accepted to the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. One panel is titled “Citizenship and alienation” and will be chaired by Cathy Cohen (Chicago). The other will be chaired by Arash Abizadeh (McGill) and is titled “Democracy’s internal and external borders.” I’ll be presenting the introduction to my dissertation and my democratic theory chapter (“Democracy’s internal borders”). September 3-6, 2015 in San Francisco, CA.
I’ll be presenting my St. Elizabeths case study (“Mad Politics: Voice on an Asylum Ward”) to the Self and Subjectivity Workshop on April 14. I’m looking forward to hearing advice, thoughts, and critiques from a new audience. 4:30 p.m. in Foster 108.
I’ll be presenting a substantially revised draft of my boarding school chapter at the Political Theory Workshop in a few weeks. Attend if you can, I’d love the feedback. Jan. 26, 12 p.m., Pick 506.
I’ve been invited to participate in a “conference within a conference” on abolition politics at the upcoming WPSA. My panel is on prisons. Looking forward to the conversation! April 2-4, Caesar’s Palace Hotel, Las Vegas. [Conference program available here.]
Short and Long-term Dissertation Research Grant recipients from the 2013-14 school year will be participating in an all-day conference sponsored by the Social Sciences Division later this month. The conference begins at 9 a.m. and my panel is from 1-2:30 p.m. Come check it out on Nov. 21 in Ida Noyes Hall. Poster available here; post on my research at the SSD’s Dialogo blog here.
Christopher D. Berk 