Kim Furumoto, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Kim Benita Furumoto received her J.D. and Ph.D. in the College of Law and the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University in 2006. She joined the faculty at UIS after a year-long Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. One of her current scholarly projects attempts to examine early conceptions of race in the juridical-theological foundations of modern international law. She is also working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, “Racial Juris-Fiction: Federal Indian Law from the Discovery Doctrine to Allotment.” Her areas of interest include federal Indian law, civil rights law, environmental law, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and existential philosophy.
Publications:
Boundaries of the Racial State: Two Faces of Racist Exclusion in United States Law