S ORA Y. H AN Department of Criminology, Law & Society 2319 Social Ecology II University of California Irvine, CA 92697-7080 Office: (949) 824-0050 Mobile: (510) 872-6333 Fax: (949) 824-3001 [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of California, Irvine Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society and School of Law (affiliations with African American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Ph.D. program in Culture & Theory) Associate Professor 2016-present Assistant Professor 2008-2016 University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Center for the Study of Law & Society Visiting Scholar & Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008 Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Adjunct Professor 2005-2006 School of Law, Center for the Study of Law & Culture Visiting Researcher 2004-2005 EDUCATION Ph.D. History of Consciousness (parenthetical in Feminist Studies), University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006 J.D. (concentration in Critical Race Studies), University of California, Los Angeles, 2004 B.A. Comparative Ethnic Studies (Summa Cum Laude), University of California, Berkeley, 1999 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS B4. Mu, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet (in progress). B3. Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness (in progress). B2. Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law (Stanford UP, 2015). B1. Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law: Cases, Codes, Constitutions, and Commentary, coauthored with David Oppenheimer and Sheila Foster (Foundation Press, Fall 2012). JOURNAL ARTICLES JO6. “The Anti-Colonial Errancy of Mu” (manuscript available). JO5. “Race, Visuality, and Criminology” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (forthcoming Fall 2017). JO4. “Slavery as Contract: On Betty’s Case and the Question of Freedom” in Law & Literature (Fall 2015). JO3. “Abolition: At Issue, In Any Case” in Lateral, Issue 3 (Spring 2014). JO2. “The Purloined Prisoner” in Theoretical Criminology, vol. 16, no. 2 (June 2012). JO1. “The Long Shadow of Racial Profiling” British Journal of American Legal Studies, vol. 1, issue 1 (Birmingham City University School of Law, Spring 2012). BOOK CHAPTERS BC3. “Equal Protection’s Dead End, or the Slave’s Undying Claim” in Anne Richardson Oakes (ed.), Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation (Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2015), pp. 49-64. BC2. “Strict Scrutiny: The Tragedy of Constitutional Law” in Patricia T. Clough & Craig Willse (eds.), Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), pp. 106-135. BC1. “Intersectional Sensibilities and the Shudder” in Renée Heberle (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2006), pp. 173-191. LAW REVIEW ARTICLES LR2. “The Conditional Logic of Strict Scrutiny: Race and Sexuality in Constitutional Law” in Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, vol. IV, issue 1 (Stanford Law School, April 2008): 77-112. LR1. “The Politics of Race in Asian American Jurisprudence” in Asian Pacific American Law Journal, vol. 11, no. 1 (UCLA School of Law, Spring 2006): 1-40. BOOK REVIEWS BR2. Review of Michelle Brown, The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle for Law and Society Review, vol. 45, no. 2 (June 2011): 518-520. BR1. Review of Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin, eds., Race, Gender & Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror for Theoretical Criminology, vol. 12, no. 2 (London: Sage, May 2008): 250-253. SELECT PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks “Decolonizing Revolutionary Theory: Comments” The Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada January 2017 “Law, Violence, and Fanon” Law and Violence Working Group, University of California, Irvine, Humanities Research Institute November 2016 “The Anti-Colonial Errancy of Mu” The Black Outdoors Speaker Series Duke University, Franklin Humanities Institute October 2016 “Emergency/Poetics: Remembering Nasser Hussain” Inhabiting the Impasse: A Symposium on Race, Law & Colonialism, University of Illinois, Chicago, Social Justice Initiative April 2016 “The Poetics of American Constitutionalism” Intersections in American Constitutionalism Panel University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society “Law, Language, and Letters of the Law” Law and Society II Graduate Seminar University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society “Race, Gender, and Criminology” Criminology and Criminal Justice Program, School of Law, University of London, Birkbeck Han: 2 of 7 February 2016 November 2015 July 2015 “Gender, Inequality and Law” Law and Society I Graduate Seminar University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society May 2015 “Slavery as Contract” Law and Poetry Symposium University of California, Riverside “Sing or Your Life” The Liquid Plain Symposium University of California, Irvine “50th Anniversary Roundtable: The (Not So Common) Place of Law” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting Minneapolis, MN May 2014 “The Racial Politics of American Federalism” UC Center for New Racial Studies Symposium UC Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, CA May 2014 “Indigenous as Alien: Comments” Law as…Glossolalia Symposium University of California, Irvine, School of Law “Comments on The Law is a White Dog” Race and the Jurisgenerative Principle Symposium University of California, Irvine “Anti-Colonialism and the Critique of Law” Critical Ethnic Studies Annual Meeting Chicago, IL “Betty’s Choice” Race and Ethnic Studies Division of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, IL May 2013 “The EUs Racial Equality Directive: A Shadow Reading” Comparative Affirmative Action Conference University of California, Berkeley School of Law April 2013 “Bell’s Invitation, Betty’s Arrival” Center for Law, Society & Culture Colloquium University of California, Irvine April 2013 “Law’s Animacies” Beatrice Bain Research Group Spring Panel University of California, Berkeley April 2013 “Bell’s Invitation, Betty’s Arrival” Identity and Difference Seminar University of California, Irvine, School of Law March 2013 “Derrick Bell’s Fanonian Leap” Fifth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium UCLA School of Law March 2013 “Letters of the Law” Faculty Colloqium University of Hawaii, Manoa, School of Law January 2013 “The Legal Lyric of Civil Rights” Anti-Colonial Machine Working Group Amherst College, Amherst, MA “The Materiality of Treasure’s Letter” Cultural Studies Association San Diego, CA March 2015 February 2015 March 2014 October 2013 September 2013 September 2012 April 2012 “Feminine Jouissance and the Law” Graduate seminar on Race and Psychoanalysis University of California, San Diego March 2012 “Asian Americans In Theory” Asian American Law Journal Symposium University of California, Berkeley Law School March 2012 “Derrida’s Abolitionism” Abolition Pedagogies Conference University of California, Berkeley Han: 3 of 7 October 2011 “Race in Political Theory” Anti-Colonial Machine Working Group Duke University, Durham, NC “Towards a Punishment Studies” Law and Society Association San Francisco, CA June 2011 “Abolition Without Condition” Cultural Studies Association Chicago, CA March 2011 “Unbecoming: A Reading of Torward a Global Idea of Race” American Studies Association San Antonio, TX November 2010 “The Shadow of Sexual Privacy” Violence and the Law Symposium University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA September 2010 “So Many Letters” Sites of Critique in a Dystopic World Roundtable Pembroke Center, Brown University, RI April 2010 “The Exemplar of Arizona in Sun Belt Justice” Panel on Mona Lynch’s Sun Belt Justice University of California, Irvine April 2010 “Writing the Wall” Cultural Studies Association Berkeley, CA “The Full-Circle of Prison/Education” Prison/Education Panel University of California, Irvine “The Catch-22 of Legal Interpretation” The Interpretive Violence of the Law Symposium University of California, Riverside January 2010 “What I Learned From Angela” Angela Y. Davis: Legacies in the Making University of California, Santa Cruz October 2009 “Comments on Law and Inheritance” Center for Law, Culture and Society University of California, Irvine November 2008 “Regulation, Bureaucracy and Civil Rights” Humanities Research Institute University of California, Irvine November 2008 “Comparing Crime and Colorblindness” Comparative Racial Injustice Paris X University, Nanterre, France June 2008 “Comparative Equality Law in Educational Reform” Law course in Comparative Equality Law Paris X University, Nanterre, France June 2008 “The New and Non of US Bound Immigration” Association for Asian American Studies Chicago, IL May 2008 “Indigenous Studies Today: Theories We Live By” Native American and Indigenous Studies University of Georgia, Athens, GA April 2008 “Torture and the Press of the Present” Panel for staged reading of The Press University of Southern California, Los Angeles “Themes in Race, Nation & Sexuality” Seminar in Asian American Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity” Critical Race Feminisms Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA Han: 4 of 7 October 2011 March 2010 February 2010 March 2008 September 2007 April 2007 “Racial Profiling as Constitutional Interpretation” Seminar in Critical Race Theory School of Law, UCLA January 2007 “The Tragedy of Constitutional Law: Race, Internment, Sexuality” Beyond Biopolitics Symposium The City University of New York, Graduate Center March 2006 “The Prison House of Trauma: On Wiseman’s Titicut Follies (1967)” The Cinema of Internment School of Law, Columbia University, NY March 2005 “Themes in Equal Protection and Race” African American Studies Department University of California, Los Angeles “Women’s Imprisonment, Commanding View” Instruments of Torture: Middle Ages to the Present Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA November 2003 June 2001 Other Conferences and Symposia “Violence and the Question of Consent” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA June 2016 “Violence and the Question of Consent” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting Seattle, WA May 2015 “Slavery as Contract” Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting Riverside, CA May 2014 “Critical Criminology and the Black Radical Tradition” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA November 2014 “Settler Colonialism and AntiBlackness” American Studies Association Annual Meeting Los Angeles, CA November 2014 “Slavery as Contract” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting Minneapolis, MN May 2014 “Law and the Afterlife of Slavery” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting Boston, MA June 2013 “The Tortious Torture of Social Life” American Studies Association Annual Meeting San Juan, Puerto Rico “Mass Incarceration After Intersectionality” Fourth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium UCLA School of Law “Sustained: Declarations of Law, Demands for Justice” American Studies Association Annual Meeting Washington, DC November 2009 “The Epistolary Landscape of Mass Incarceration” American Studies Association Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM October 2008 “Strict Scrutiny” Assoc. for Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC “On Owning the Past” Storytelling and the Law Conference Emory Law School, Atlanta, GA Han: 5 of 7 November 2012 March 2010 March 2007 October 2006 TEACHING Graduate Undergraduate Law and Society II Critical Race Theory Law and Violence Law and Biopolitics Constitution and Abolition Gender and Power in Law and Society Race and Incarceration Law and Inequality Constitutional Law Critical Race Theory Theories of Punishment Comparative Study of Legal Cultures HONORS & AWARDS Award for Inclusive Excellence in Research Junior Faculty Fellow Visiting Scholar Working Group Co-PI UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Davis-Putter Scholarship Experimental Critical Theory Fellowship Visiting Research Fellowship Vincent A. Marco Memorial Scholarship Eugene Cota-Robles Graduate Fellowship University Medal Finalist Haas Scholars Research Fellowship School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine UC Irvine Hellman Fellowship Beatrice Bain Research Group, UC Berkeley UC Humanities Research Institute UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine Columbia Law School University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley 2015 2013-2014 2012-2013 2010-2011 2006-2008 2002-2006 2005 2004-2005 2002-2003 2000-2002 1999 1998-1999 SELECT GRANTS 2017-2018 Faculty Research Grant, UC Consortium for Black Studies, $6,500. 2016-2017 DECADE Graduate Mentor Diversity Award, UC Irvine Graduate Division, $31,800. 2015-2016 Graduate Growth Incentive Award, UC Irvine Graduate Division, $10,600. 2013-2014 Faculty Research Grant, UC Irvine Hellman Fellowship, $9,000. 2013-2014 Faculty Research Grant, UC Center for New Racial Studies, $6,800. 2013-2014 Faculty Research Grant, UC Irvine Humanities Collective, $2,000. 2013-2014 Collaborative Projects Grant, UC Irvine Center in Law, Society and Culture, $1,850. 2010-2011 Working Group Co-PI, UC Humanities Research Institute, $10,000. 2010-2011 Symposium Organizer, UC Irvine Center in Law, Society and Culture, $5,000. SERVICE PROFESSIONAL Board Member, Theoretical Criminology (Fall 2011-present) Trustee, Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund (Fall 2010-present) Program Committee Member, Cultural Studies Association (Spring 2015-Spring 2016) Planning Committee Member, West Coast Law and Society Retreat (Fall 2015-Winter 2016) Awards Committee, Law and Society Association (Winter 2015) LSA-ABF Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Law and Society Association (Fall 2014) Executive Committee, Cultural Studies Association (Fall 2010-Spring 2014) LSA-ABF Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, Law and Society Association (Fall 2013) Manuscript Reviewer, Theoretical Criminology; Law and Social Inquiry; Law, Culture and the Humanities; PhiloSOPHIA, Punishment & Society, American Quarterly, Duke University Press Han: 6 of 7 ACADEMIC Department/School Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Criminology, Law and Society (Winter 2017) DECADE Mentor, Criminology, Law and Society (Fall 2015-present) Faculty Diversity Committee Chair, Criminology, Law and Society (Fall 2015-present) Diversity and Justice Speaker Series Committee, Criminology, Law and Society (Spring 2015-Spring 2016) Faculty Diversity Committee Member, Criminology, Law and Society (Fall 2014-Spring 2015) Graduate Comprehensive Exam Coordinator, Criminology, Law and Society (Fall 2013-Spring 2015) Graduate Admissions Committee, Criminology, Law and Society (Fall 2011-Winter 2012) Law and Society Graduate Curriculum Committee, Criminology, Law and Society (Spring 2009-Spring 2012) Faculty Ambassador, Social Ecology Undergraduate Recruitment (Spring 2011) Awards Committee, Criminology, Law and Society (Spring 2011) Campus Selection Committee Member, Black Lives Matter Writing Contest, African American Studies (Winter 2017) Director, Graduate Emphasis in Race and Justice Studies (Spring 2016-present) Member, Academic Senate Subcommittee on Undergraduate Courses (Winter 2015-present) Governing Board Member, International Studies Program (Winter 2015-present) External Faculty Search Committee, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Fall 2014-Spring 2015) Hellman Fellowship Advisory Committee, Graduate Division (Spring 2015) Hellman Fellowship Advisory Committee, Graduate Division (Spring 2014) Dean’s Fellowship Award Committee, Graduate Division (Spring 2013) President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Workshop, UCI ADVANCE (Spring 2013) Symposium Organizer, Center for Law, Society and Culture, UC Irvine (Spring 2011) University System External Application Review Committee, President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Fall 2012-present) On-Site Application Review Committee, President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Winter 2015) Application Review Committee, UC Center for New Racial Studies (Spring 2012) On-Site Application Review Committee, President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Winter 2012) Director, University of California Transnationalizing Justice Multicampus Research Group (2010-2011) Co-Principal, University of California Humanities Research Institute Working Group, “The Post-Public University and Its Discontents” (2010-2011) Member, University of California Transnationalizing Justice Multicampus Research Group (2008-2010) MEMBERSHIPS American Studies Association (2002-present) Cultural Studies Association (2010- present) Law and Society Association (2010- present) Han: 7 of 7
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