Professor Pruitt Speaks on Rurality, Blogging at Chase College of Law

  • by Joseph Martin

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke on "Rurality as Identity" and "Blogging as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking and Writing" at Northern Kentucky University's Salmon P. Chase College of Law on March 27.  The lectures were part of the law school's spring speaker series.

Lisa R. Pruitt is a professor at the UC Davis School of Law whose recent scholarship explores how rural spatiality inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Her work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. 

Professor Pruitt has several blogs, some of which also feature student participants from her classes.   Legal Ruralism, a little (legal) realism about the rural, is at http://legalruralism.blogspot.com/, and Feminist Legal Theory is at http://femlegaltheory.blogspot.com/.  Her recent undergraduate seminar on Gender and the 2008 Presidential Election also created a blog, which can be viewed at genderin2008.blogspot.com.