Brief
biography: Robert F. Castro is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Division of Politics, Administration & Justice at the California State University, Fullerton. He holds a B.A. in Criminology, Law & Society from U.C. Irvine; a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was in the inaugural class of the Program in Public Interest Law & Policy (PILP). He is a former Gilder-Lehrman Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance from Yale University (2006). His work on law, race and captive-taking has been published in academic journals, such as the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, La Raza Law Review (U.C. Berkeley), Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave & Post-Slave Studies, and the Rutgers Journal of Race & the Law. In 2008, Robert was invited to be an Amicus Historian of Record in a U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief defending the right of plaintiffs to bring retaliation claims for race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. His work on immigration and borderland violence has been published in the Journal of Hate Studies; Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy; and is forthcoming in AMICUS: the online journal for the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review. In 2009, Robert was given the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California State University, Fullerton. He was the first Assistant Professor in the history of CSU- Fullerton's College of Humanities & Social Sciences to be bestowed this award.
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