Contributors

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Shawn C. Fettig

Dr. Shawn C. Fettig is a political scientist with research interest in trust and legitimacy - of our politicians, institutions, and policies. His research focus has been primarily on the judicial system and the evolution of political rights for vulnerable communities. He is also interested in interpersonal relationships and how our shared stories and experiences can build trust within and across people and communities. 

You can email him at deepdivewithshawn@gmail.com

Guests

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Dr. Maria Cristina Garcia

Garcia, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, writes and teaches about refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers.  Her most recent book is State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), which was awarded an Honorable Mention from the Theodore Saloutos Book Prize committee of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

She is the author of three other books:  The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (Oxford University Press, 2017), a study of the actors and interests that have shaped US refugee policy in the Post-Cold War and post 9/11 era; Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (University of California Press, 2006), a study of the individuals, groups, and organizations that responded to the Central American refugee crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and helped shape refugee policies throughout North America.

https://history.cornell.edu/maria-cristina-garcia
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Professor Daniel Farber

Dan Farber is the Sho Sato Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He also has leadership roles at two Berkeley research centers: the Center for Law, Energy, and Environment; and the Edley Center on Law and Democracy. Professor Farber is a member of the American Academy of Arts.

His most recent book is Contested Ground: How to Understand the Limits on Presidential Power (UC Press 2021). His earlier books include Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law (Elgar 2010) (with A. O’Connell); Judgment Calls: Politics and Principle in Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press 2008) (with S. Sherry); Retained by the People: The “Silent” Ninth Amendment and the Rights Americans Don’t Know They Have (Basic Books 2007); Lincoln’s Constitution (University of Chicago Press 2003); and Eco-Pragmatism: How to Make Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World (1999). 

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/daniel-farber/#tab_profile