PART TIME FACULTY
VISITING FACULTY
AFFILIATED FACULTY
EMERITUS FACULTY
Ursula Abels Castellano
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of California-Davis. 2005
Contact Information:
Bentley Annex 119
Phone: (740) 593-1366
E-mail: castella@ohio.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Specialization:
The Criminal Justice System, Courts and Legal Processes, Organizational
Theory, Nonprofits and Community Organization,
Mental Health and Illness, Ethnography and Qualitative Methodologies
Courses Taught:
Soc 101: Introduction to Sociology
Soc 365: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Soc 430/530: Sociology of Organizations
Soc 462/562: Sociology of the Courts
Soc 609: Seminar on Law
Selected Publications:
Castellano, Ursula. 2009. "Beyond the Courtroom Workgroup: Caseworkers as the New Satellite of Social Control." Law & Policy 31(3).
Castellano, Ursula, Joesph De Angelis, and Marisol Clark Ibanez. 2008. "Cultivating a Sociological Perspective Using Nontraditional Texts." Teaching Sociology 36(3): 240-253.
Castellano, Ursula. 2007. “Becoming a non-expert and other strategies for managing fieldwork dilemmas in the criminal justice system.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36(6): 704-730.
Castellano, Ursula. 2007. “Tell your story.” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds 6(3): 56-57.
Castellano, Ursula. 2007. “Caribbean drugs: From criminalization to harm reduction.” International Sociology Review of Books 22 (5): 598-601.
Riker, Alissa and Ursula Castellano. 2001. “The Homeless Release Project: An Innovative Pretrial Release Option.” Federal Probation 65: 9-13.
Riker, Ali and Ursula Castellano. 2000. “Community-Based Treatment: The Impact of the Homeless Pretrial Release Project.” Justice Policy Institute (June).