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Sheldon Bernard Lyke is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago,
where his research interests include law and social science in a comparative context, property, and criminal law.
Some of his past research projects have included examining the legal
treatment of Cuban and Tanzanian commercial sex workers, and reading the landmark 2003 Supreme Court decision--Lawrence v. Texas--as an Eighth Amendment case. His dissertation research examines courts' use of
foreign laws when deciding domestic constitutional issues. Currently, Sheldon is an adjunct at Columbia College Chicago's Department of
History, Humanities, and Social Science, where he teaches Introduction to Sociology. He has also served as a
lecturer at the University of Chicago in the Human Rights
Program, at the Center for International Studies, and most recently at
the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. At the University of Chicago, he has taught
classes on Race as Property, Contemporary Global Issues, and Sexuality & Human Rights.
Sheldon, a Chicago native, received an A.B. cum laude in sociology from Princeton University in 1996, and a J.D. in 1999 from Northwestern University School of Law. In his spare time, Sheldon enjoys cooking and designing crochet and knitwear.
Last updated August 2010
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