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Research Hall, Room 339
George Mason Ģ��AV
10401 York River Road
Fairfax, VA 22030

Phone: (703) 993-6365
Fax: (703) 993-8215
Email: cberk@gmu.edu

Appointments

George Mason Ģ��AV
Assistant Professor in the Schar School of Policy & Government
2019-

Ģ��AV of Virginia
DeOlazarra Fellow in the Program in Political Philosophy, Policy & Law
2016-2019

Education

Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Ģ��AV of Chicago
2016

Dissertation
On Self Government: Democratic Politics and Law in Prisons, Asylums, and Boarding Schools

Committee
Andrew Abbott, Cathy Cohen, Robert Gooding-Williams, & Bernard Harcourt (chair)

Examination fields
American Politics, Political Theory

M.L.S., Ģ��AV of Chicago Law School
2016

M.A., Department of Political Science, Ģ��AV of Chicago
2010

B.A., summa cum laude, Department of Political Science, Ģ��AV of Washington
2007

Book Manuscript

Democracy in Captivity: Essays on the political situation of prisoners, patients, and others in custody. In preparation.

Book manuscript conference held at the Ģ��AV of Virginia on May 3, 2019.

Publications, Refereed

Berk, Christopher D. 2019. “Reply to Elizabeth Scott, Laurence Steinberg, David Tanenhaus, and James Backstrom." Law & Social Inquiry 44, no. 3: 787-790.

Berk, Christopher D. 2019. “C�󾱱����Ǵǻ�, development, and the troubled foundations of �Ѿ����������v. Alabama." Law & Social Inquiry 44, no. 3: 752-770.

• Symposium at LSI devoted to this article

Berk, Christopher D. 2018. “O�� Prison Democracy: The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison.” Critical Inquiry 44, no. 2: 275-302.

Under Review

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Publications, Invited

Berk, Christopher D. 2010. “Investment Talk: Comments on the Use of the Language of Investment in Prison Reform Advocacy.” Carceral Notebooks 6 (2010): 115-129.

Works in Progress

“Mad Politics: Disability, Care, and Patient Collective Action.” “G�DZ�����Ծ��Բ� Children: Resistance in a Boarding School for At-Risk Youth.”

Awards and Fellowships

2016. Visiting Scholar, The Newberry
Scholars-in-residence are given privileged use of the library and are "expected to publish or oth- erwise disseminate their research" and "participate in the ����ɲ��������’s intellectual community."

2015-16. Master of Legal Studies Fellowship, Ģ��AV of Chicago Law School Tuition remission and living stipend for a year of coursework in law.

2014-15. William Rainey Harper Provost Dissertation Fellowship, Ģ��AV of Chicago Tuition remission and living stipend, "one of the highest honors given to our graduate students."

2011. Grodzins Prize Lectureship, Ģ��AV of Chicago
Competition among advanced graduate students to design and teach a course.

2010. Joseph Cropsey Prize for the ※��ܳٲ��ٲ��Ի徱�Բ� master’s thesis in political philosophy written by a student in the Department of Political Science,” Ģ��AV of Chicago

2010. High Pass in the American Politics Field Exam, Ģ��AV of Chicago

2008-13. McCabe Fellowship, Ģ��AV of Chicago
Tuition remission and living stipend for five years of graduate study.

2007. Daniel Lev Award for the ※��ܳٲ��ٲ��Ի徱�Բ� political science senior �ٳ�������” in 2007, Ģ��AV of Washington

2007. Graduated summa cum laude in the Honors College with Distinction in Political Science, Ģ��AV of Washington

Grants

2013-14. Social Science Division Long-Term Project Grant, Ģ��AV of Chicago ($8,000)

2013. Social Science Division Summer Grant, Ģ��AV of Chicago ($3,000)

2011. Doolittle-Harrison Travel Grant, Ģ��AV of Chicago ($1,000)

Teaching

George Mason Ģ��AV
Democratic Theory and Practice and Constitutional Law (graduate)
Seminar in the Courts
Spring 2020

Ģ��AV of Virginia
Prisons - Fall 2018
Law and Democracy - Fall 2017
Law & Political Thought: Punishment - Fall 2016
B.A. Thesis Colloquium in Political Philosophy, Policy & Law
Spring 2017, 2018, 2019

Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (Piedmont Virginia Community College)
Constitutional Foundations of American Government
Summer 2017

Ģ��AV of Chicago
B.A. Thesis Colloquium, Department of Political Science
2013-2014

Classics of Social and Political Thought III
Spring 2013

The Politics of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
Spring 2012

Advising

Resident Head of Vincent House, Ģ��AV of Chicago College Housing
2013-2016

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Center for Teaching Excellence in-class observation & focus group (Virginia) - 2016

Seminar and Workshop on Course Design (Chicago) - 2015

Workshop on Teaching in the College (Chicago) - 2012

Talks

Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative, Ģ��AV of Virginia, 2019. "Life in Graduate School and Law School."

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia Ģ��AV. 2015. ���𳾴dz������پ��� Exclusions: Prisoners, patients, and children in democratic politics."

Chicago Area Behavior Workshop, Northwestern Ģ��AV. 2015. “Participatory Politics and Equality in the Digital Age."

Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics, MacArthur Foundation. 2014. “Partic- ipatory Politics and Equality in the Digital Age."

Spring Lecture Series for Political Science Majors, Ģ��AV of Chicago. 2014. ��ಹ�ٲ� Collection in Political Science Research."

Asylums and Prisons: Deinstitutionalization and Decarceration, Ģ��AV of Chicago. 2013. “Mad Politics."

Conferences

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC 2010; Seattle, WA 2011; Chicago, IL 2013; Washington, DC 2014; San Francisco, CA 2015; San Francisco, CA 2017; Boston, MA 2018.

Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. San Francisco, CA 2011; Seattle, WA 2015; New Orleans, LA 2016; Toronto, Canada 2018; Washington, DC 2019.

Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Cultural, and the Humanities. Stan- ford Law School, Palo Alto, CA 2017; Georgetown Law School, Washington, DC 2018.

Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. San Antonio, TX 2011; Seattle, WA 2014; Vancouver, Canada 2017; San Francisco, CA 2018.

Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Theory. Ohio State Ģ��AV, 2016; Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, 2018; Ģ��AV of California, Irvine, 2019.

Fourth Annual Conference on Radical Democracy. New School for Social Research, New York, NY 2014.

Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL 2013.

Annual Meeting of the Mid-West Political Science Association in Chicago, IL. 2009; 2010.

Research Seminars, Workshops

WRiPS, George Mason Ģ��AV. 2019. “M�ܲ��� penal law be insulated from public influence?"
PPL Colloquium, Ģ��AV of Virginia. 2018. “Custody and Community Control."
PPL Colloquium, Ģ��AV of Virginia. 2016. ���𳾴dz���������’s Internal Borders."
Self & Subjectivity Workshop, Ģ��AV of Chicago. 2015. “Mad Politics."
Political Theory Workshop, Ģ��AV of Chicago. 2015. “G�DZ�����Ծ��Բ� Children."
American Politics Workshop, Ģ��AV of Chicago. 2014. “G�DZ�����Ծ��Բ� Children."
Political Theory Workshop, Ģ��AV of Chicago. 2014. “Mad Politics."
Political Theory Workshop, Ģ��AV of Chicago. 2013. “O�� Prison Democracy."

Professional Memberships

American Political Science Association (APSA)
Law & Society Association (LSA)
Association for Political Theory (APT)

Professional Service

Manuscript Reviewer
Law & Society Review, Political Theory, Theoretical Criminology, and Routledge

Political Theory Workshop
Student Coordinator
Fall 2011-2013
Chicago, IL

Faculty Hiring Committee
Student Representative
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Graduate
Chicago, IL

Community Service

Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women
Instructor
2017
Troy, VA

Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, Nancy B. Jefferson School
Volunteer Tutor
2013-2015
Chicago, IL

Safer Foundation, 1811 Adult Transition Center
Volunteer Tutor
2008-2011
Chicago, IL

Literacy Americorps, King County Correctional Facility
Instructor
2007-2008
Seattle, WA

Updated October 16, 2019