Affiliate Faculty

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