Jeannine Bell is Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. She holds an A.B. from Harvard College, and both a J.D. and Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of Michigan. Bell has written extensively on criminal justice issues including: Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights and Hate Crime (2002); Police and Policing Law (2006) and Gaining Access to Research Sites: A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers (with Martha Feldman and Michele Berger) (2003).  Her newest book, Hate Thy Neighbor (forthcoming, NYU Press) explores hate crime in integrating neighborhoods.  During 2009-10, Bell was a fellow at Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs. 

     Bell was co-chair of the Program Committee for the 2011 LSA meeting and also serves as a member of LSA’s Executive Director Search Committee. Bell’s first LSA Annual Meeting was in 1993, and over the course of the last 16 years, she has held numerous leadership roles in the Association. She was elected Trustee (Class of 2006) and has served as an associate editor of the Law & Society Review, most recently helping put together the Review’s forthcoming special issue on race.  She has served as a member of numerous committees including Jacob Prize (2003); Diversity (2000-2003), and Program committees (2002, 2006). She has chaired the Diversity committee (2002-2003), Nominations committee (2009). As co-chair and chair of the Summer Institute committee, Bell helped organized the first-ever international Summer Institutes held in England (2005) and in South Africa (2006).