JENNIFER SEGAL DIASCRO Curriculum Vita June 2009 DEPARTMENT ADDRESS American University Office Phone: (202) 885-2246 Department of Government, SPA Fax: (202) 885-2967 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. E-mail: [email protected] Washington, DC 20016-8130 ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2002 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Government, American University 2001- 2002 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky 2000 - 2001 Supreme Court Fellow, U.S. Sentencing Commission, Washington D.C. 1995 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky 1992 - 1995 Independent Teaching Instructor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University. 1990 - 1992 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University. EDUCATION 1995 Ph.D. in Political Science, The Ohio State University 1994 M.A. in Political Science, The Ohio State University 1990 B.A., Cum Laude, in Political Science, University of California, San Diego RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS Research Judicial politics and public law, with a focus on federal courts and representation, the mass media, public opinion, judicial decision making, and criminal justice policy. Teaching Undergraduate courses in judicial processes and behavior, mass media and politics, women and litigating change, American jury, research methods, constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, political behavior. Graduate seminar in Judicial Politics.ARTICLES Diascro, Jennifer Segal and Rorie Spill Solberg. 2009. “George W. Bush’s Legacy on the Federal Bench: Policy in the Face of Diversity.” Judicature May-June, Forthcoming Diascro, Jennifer Segal. 2008. “The Legacy of Chief Justice Rehnquist: A View from the Small Screen.” Judicature 92(3): 106-117. Segal, Jennifer A. 2001. “The Role of Family Ties Departures in Federal Sentencing.” Federal Sentencing Reporter 13: 258-267. Segal, Jennifer A. 2000. “Judicial Decision Making and the Impact of Election Year Rhetoric.” Judicature 84(2): 26-33. Reprinted in Slotnick, Elliot E., ed. 2005. Judicial Politics: Readings from Judicature. Washington, DC: CQ Press. Segal, Jennifer A. 2000. A Response to Judge Newman’s Letter to the Editor concerning, “Judicial Decision Making and the Impact of Election Year Rhetoric.” Judicature 84(3): 115-116. Segal, Jennifer A. 2000. “Representative Decision Making on the Federal Bench: Clinton’s District Court Appointees.” Political Research Quarterly 53: 137-150. Segal, Jennifer A. 1999. “Diffuse Support for the United States Supreme Court: Reliable Reservoir or Fickle Foundation.” American Review of Politics 20: 1-24. Segal, Jennifer A. 1997. “The Decision Making of Clinton’s Nontraditional Judicial Appointees.” Judicature 80: 279. Reprinted in Slotnick, Elliot E., ed. 1999. Judicial Politics. 2nd edition. Chicago, Illinois: American Judicature Society. Slotnick, Elliot E. and Jennifer A. Segal. 1994. " 'The Supreme Court Decided Today' ... Or Did It?" Judicature 78: 89-95. Reprinted in Slotnick, Elliot E., ed. 2005. Judicial Politics: Readings from Judicature. Washington, DC: CQ Press. BOOK CHAPTERS Schaffner, Brian and Jennifer Segal Diascro. 2007. “News Coverage of State Supreme Court.” In Running for Judge, ed. Matthew Streb. New York, NY: New York University Press. Diascro, Jennifer Segal. 2004. “Public Education for Men Only: United States v. Virginia (1996).” In Creating Constitutional Change: Clashes over Power and Liberty in the Supreme Court, ed. Gregg Ivers and Kevin T. McGuire. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press. BOOKS Diascro, Jennifer Segal and Gregg Ivers, eds. 2006. Inside the Judicial Process: A Contemporary Reader in Law, Politics and the Courts, 1/e. Boston, Ma.: Houghton Mifflin Co.Slotnick, Elliot E. and Jennifer A. Segal. 1998. Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That’s Fit to Air? Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted in part in Murphy, Walter F, C. Herman Pritchett, and Lee Epstein, eds. 2002. Courts, Judges & Politics: An Introduction to the Judicial Process. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Diascro, Jennifer Segal. 2006. “The Jury.” In An Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties, ed. Otis H. Stephens and John M. Scheb II. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Diascro, Jennifer Segal. 2006. “United States v. Virginia.” In An Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties, ed. Otis H. Stephens and John M. Scheb II. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS “The Congress, the Court, and the Constitution.” With Christine DeGregorio (American University) “News Coverage of Supreme Court Nominations: The Confirmation Hearings of John Roberts and Samuel Alito.” With Rorie Spill Solberg (Oregon State) “What Gender Discrimination?: The Struggle for Equality in the News.” With Rorie Spill Solberg (Oregon State) BOOK REVIEWS Review of The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Policy Brutality, Regina G. Lawrence. The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 11 No. 4 (April 2001) pp. 173-176. Review of Reporting on the Courts: How the Mass Media Cover Judicial Actions, William Haltom. The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 9 No. 12 (December 1999) pp. 550-553. Review of Covering the Courts: A Handbook for Journalists, S. L. Alexander. The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 9 No. 11 (November 1999) pp. 522-526. Review of Prime Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative, Robert M. Jarvis and Paul R. Joseph, editors. The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 9 No. 2 (February 1999) pp. 47-49. HONORS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, School of Public Affairs, American University, $5000. April 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. Faculty Research Award FY2007, Dean of Academic Affairs, American University, $6300 Research Support for “The Legacy of Chief Justice Rehnquist: A View from the Small Screen” February 2006.Faculty Research Award FY2004, Dean of Academic Affairs, American University, $6240, Research Support for “Representation from the Federal Bench: Clinton’s Non-Traditional District Court Appointees.” February 2003. Instructor, The Fifth Annual UK Freshman Discovery Seminar Program, Arts and