Michael Yarbrough
Social Scientist of Law, Culture, and Family
- Role
- Associate Professor of Law and Society at John Jay College (CUNY)
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Yarbrough
Michael W. Yarbrough is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), where his teaching focuses on the Law & Society major. His research examines how law shapes the ways we understand interpersonal relationships, most especially the relationship of marriage. He is currently writing a book on South Africa, the only country in the world that has recently expanded marriage laws twice: for same-sex marriages, and for marriages under indigenous systems of African law. This project has received multiple awards, including the 2019 Law & Society Association Article Prize. Yarbrough also recently published the After Marriage Equality series, three co-edited volumes that examine how queer families, activism, and political priorities are changing after same-sex marriage. Yarbrough places a high priority on working with undergraduates, and he has received awards from John Jay for both teaching and service to students. He is currently helping develop a large project in which Law & Society students at John Jay will research how law shapes inequality in their own communities throughout the NYC region. In 2019, Yarbrough was recognized by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences as one of CUNY’s outstanding Assistant Professors. He holds a BA in sociology from the University of Chicago and a JD and a PhD in sociology from Yale.
Experience
Associate Professor of Law and Society
Sep 2020 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
University of Chicago
A.B., Sociology
2001
Yale University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology
2013
Yale Law School
J.D., Law
2009
Skills
- Fundraising
- Ethnography
- Sociology of Law
- Higher Education
- Southern Africa
- Courts
- Lgbt Rights
- Editing
- Human Rights
- Policy Analysis
- Feminism
- Public Speaking
- Social Sciences
- Qualitative Research
- Non-Profits
- Legal Research
- Legal Writing
- Sociology of Culture
- Theory
- Lgbt Community
- Research
- Sociology
- Public Policy
- Indigenous Rights
- Academic Writing
- University Teaching
- Race Relations
- Research Design
- Political Sociology
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