Rebecca Hamlin has a PhD (2009) and an MA (2003) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA (2000) from the University of Chicago.

Her research and teaching interests fall in two major areas: Public Law (including American constitutional law, administrative law, legal theory, and comparative law) and Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration (including American immigration politics, refugee and asylum policy, multiculturalism and citizenship).

She has researched and published on immigration politics and the American labor movement, and is currently at work preparing a book manuscript based on her dissertation, which was a comparative examination of asylum law and policy in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

• Pol 101 - Introduction to Political Science
• Pol 219 - Constitutional Law of the United States
• Pol 295 - The Politics of American Immigration