SUSAN M. BEHUNIAK

Professor and Chair

Reilly Hall 427
Ext. 4490
behuniak@lemoyne.edu

Ph.D. in Political Science, SUNY at Albany, 1985.
MA in Political Science, SUNY at Albany, 1980.
BA in Mass Communications, St. Bonaventure University, 1978.

COURSES TAUGHT
American National Politics
Law and Politics
The U.S. Supreme Court
Constitutional Law I (governmental powers and federalism)
Constituional Law II (civil rights and civil liberties)
Government and the Mass Media
Women and Politics
Women, Culture and Society (Introduction to Women’s Studies).

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue, co-authored with Arthur G. Svenson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
A Caring Jurisprudence: Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

RECENT ARTICLES PUBLISHED
“How Race, Gender, and Class Assumptions Enter the Supreme Court,” Race, Gender, and Class, special issue on Race, Gender, and Class in American Politics, ed. John Berg, 10 (1) 2003: 79-96.
“On ‘Where and With Whom is My Heart’,” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, No. 24, Fall 2003, pp. 39-40.
“Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey,” in The Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Female Reproductive Rights in the United States, ed. Judith A. Baer, Greenwood Press, 2002.

AWARDS
Rev. Richard M. McKeon, S.J. Scholar of the Year Award, 2003, Le Moyne College.
Educating for Justice in the Social Science Classroom Syllabus Award, 2003, Le Moyne College.
Monsignor A. Robert Casey Teacher of the Year Award, 1994, Le Moyne College.
Best Paper of the 1989 Conference Award Pennsylvania Political Science Association.
Carpenter Award for the Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 1987, Wilkes College.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPER
“The Color of Illness: Medical School and the Michigan Affirmative Action Cases,” at the 2003 annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS), Philadelphia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biomedical politics and law with a focus on reproduction and death and dying; Feminist jurisprudence.