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Elizabeth Heger Boyle

Protrait: Elizabeth Heger Boyle

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

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Sociology of Law; Globalization; Immigration; Human Rights.

Current Research

"International Pressure, National Laws, and Changing Rates of Female Genital Cutting," with Amelia Corl and Wenjie Liao.

"Child Rights: Where Global Culture Meets Global Economics," with Minzee Kim, Wesley Longhofer, and Kristin Haltinner.

"Negotiating Sha'ria and American Law: The Experience of Islamic Immigrants," with Gülseren Kozak-Isik.

"African-Immigrant Businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota: Founding, Practices, and Financing," with Shannon Golden and Yasin Garad.

Selected Publications

"International Human Rights Law, Global Economic Reforms, and Child Survival and Development Rights," with Minzee Kim. Forthcoming 2009. Law & Society Review 43(3): tbd.

"Culture, Structure, and the Refugee Experience in Somali Immigrant Family Transformation," with Ahmed Ali. Forthcoming 2009. International Migration.

"Young Refugees." 2009. Pp. 89-94 in Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: New perspectives and agendas, Andy Furlong, ed. Routledge.

"Globalization, Processes of Legislative," 2007. Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. 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.