Catherine Crooke is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California Los Angeles, where she also earned her MA. Her research interests include the legal profession, legal procedure, access to justice, social change, and immigration law and policy. She earned her BA in comparative literature and society at Columbia University, her MSc in refugee and forced migration studies at the University of Oxford, and her JD at Yale Law School. Crooke’s dissertation, Representing Refugees at the End of Asylum, investigates how immigration attorneys understand, manage, and persist in helping people navigate a politicized, control-oriented legal environment. Crooke’s research has been published in Law & Society Review and Law & Social Inquiry and funded by the Ford Foundation, the Center for Institutional Courage, and other institutions.
