Clara Altman PhD candidate
(studies commenced in fall 2007) National Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs for the 20122013 academic year (received $20,000 grant) … visiting assistant professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College … dissertation titled “Courtroom Colonialism: Philippine Law and U.S. Rule, 1898-1935” … earned BA in history and political science at Washington University in St. Louis in 2004 … received JD from Brooklyn Law School in 2007