The Jones Center collaborates with several faculty members whose research and teaching focus on law and race, gender, or social justice. Affiliate faculty members provide supervision on Social Justice Fellows’ third-year research projects and work collaboratively with the Jones Center on select programs, events, and projects.
Emily Houh
Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts, Co-founder, Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, UC College of Law
Professor Houh’s areas of interest are commercial law, contracts, and critical race. Current research includes anti-CRT legislation in Ohio and participatory action research methods in critical race/feminist praxis. Learn more about Professor Houh
Kristin Kalsem
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law, Co-founder, Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, UC College of Law
Professor Kalsem’s areas of interest are bankruptcy, commercial law, feminist legal theory, law and literature. Research includes developing and facilitating domestic violence trainings for judges and practitioners and participatory action research methods in critical race/feminist praxis. Learn more about Professor Kalsem
Meghan Morris
Assistant Professor of Law, UC College of Law, Affiliate Faculty, Department of Anthropology
Professor Morris’s areas of interest are property, international law, and legal anthropology. Research includes property and conflict on different scales, and includes a new book project This Land is My Land: Property, Paramilitarism, and the American Dream. Learn more about Professor Morris
Nate Ela
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law, UC College of Law, School of Public and International Affairs
Professor Ela’s areas of interest are land use, local government, property, law and society. Research includes land use, inequality, and democracy in American cities. Learn more about Professor Ela
Kristie Bluett
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, Director, Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic, UC College of Law
Professor Bluett is the director of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic. Research includes international human rights, women’s human rights, and refugees. Learn more about Professor Bluett
Ryan Thoreson
Assistant Professor of Law, UC College of Law
Professor Thoreson’s areas of interest are constitutional law, international law and human rights, torts, anti-discrimination law, comparative law, and law and sexuality. Research includes contemporary social movements, spanning constitutional law, criminal law, tort law, comparative and international law. Learn more about Professor Thoreson
Sarah Adkins
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, Director, Legal Access Clinic, UC College of Law
Professor Adkins is the director of the Legal Access Clinic. Previously, she served as a public interest law attorney who specialized in providing legal services to low-income immigrants, and she also served as an Assistant Attorney General of Kentucky under Governor Andy Beshear. Learn more about Professor Adkins