Elizabeth Heger Boyle

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1996 Stanford University
J.D. 1987 University of Iowa
Room 948 Social Sciences
tel.: 612-624-3343
email: boyle014@umn.edu

Interest Areas

Sociology of Law; Globalization; Immigration; Human Rights.

Current Research

"Culture, Structure, and the Refugee Experience in Somali Immigrant Family Transition"

"Constructions of History and the Migration Experience of Somalis and Ethiopians"

"Child Rights and Structural Adjustment: Where Global Culture Meets Global Economics"

Selected Publications

"Female Genital Cutting," 2007. Social Problems Encyclopedia. New York: Sage Publications.

"Institutional Vulnerability and Opportunity: Immigration and America's 'War on Terror," with Erika Busse. 2006. Law & Social Inquiry, 31: 947-74.

“International Master Frames and African Women's Explanations for Opposing Female Genital Cutting," with Kristin Carbone-Lopez. 2006. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 47: 435-65.

"Power and Autonomy in the History of Children's Rights," with Trina Smith and Katja Guenther. Forthcoming. 2006. Pp. 255-83 in Youth, Globalization, and Law, Sudhir Venkatesh and Ron Kassimir, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

"Globalization: Processes of Legislation," 2006. Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. New York: Sage Publications.

"Formal Legality and East African Immigrant Perceptions of the 'War on Terror,'" with Fortunata Ghati Songora. 2004. Law & Inequality, 22: 301-336.

Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community. 2003. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

“Modern Law as a Secularized and Global Model: Implications for the Sociology of Law,” with John W. Meyer. 2002. In Global Prescriptions:The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

“Local Conformity to International Norms: The Case of Female Genital Cutting,” with Barbara McMorris and Mayra Gómez. 2002. International Sociology, 17: 5-33.