Anna-Maria Marshall is Associate Professor and Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she also has an appointment in the College of Law.  She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia (1985) and her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University (1999).  Her research is broadly focused on studying the relationship between law and social change.  Her first book, Confronting Sexual Harassment: The Law and Politics of Everyday Life, analyzed the institutional and political foundations of legal consciousness when women navigated problems in the workplace.  More recently, her work has focused on law and social movements, particularly the environmental justice movement and lgbt activism.  She co-edited the volume, Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law (with Scott Barclay and Mary Bernstein).  She has also written in the area of cause lawyering, having contributed to two of the cause lawyer volumes edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold.  Her articles have appeared in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and Studies in Law, Politics and Society.  With Scott Barclay and Lynn Jones, Marshall has been one of the co-faciliators of the CRN on Law and Social Movements in the Law and Society Association since 2004.  She was the Chair of the Student Paper Prize Committee in 2006 and the Article Prize Committee in 2007.  She served on the Program Committee in 2005-2006, and on the LSA Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2009.  She also serves on the Council of the ASA’s Sociology of Law Section.