Mindie Lazarus-Black
University of Chicago, 1990 (Anthropology)
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Office: BSB 4056B

Department of Criminal Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 West Harrison Street, M/C 141
Chicago, IL 60607
Voice: 312-413-0439
Fax: 312-996-8355
E-mail: mindielb@uic.edu

Fields of Interest:

Law and Society Research
Race, Class, and Gender in English-Speaking Caribbean
Family and Domestic Violence Law
Legal processes in lower court
Surveillance

Short Bio:

Mindie Lazarus-Black's research focuses on the relationship between law and society, family and domestic violence law, and the history and anthropology of class, kinship, gender, and law in the English-speaking Caribbean. She spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in the Caribbean and is completing a book length manuscript that incorporates her research on domestic violence and the judicial process in Trinidad and Tobago. She has been supported from various sources, including Fulbright, ACLS, and the the Wenner-Gren Foundation. She has conducted fieldwork in Antigua and Barbuda and Trinidad and Tobago, and also worked on an ethnographic project investigating sexual assault cases in the United States. Dr. Lazarus-Black teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Law in Society, Violence, and Surveillance: Who's Watching Whom.