Judith Faucette

Education

Judith graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2006 with an honors Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a minor in creative writing. Her college coursework included Russian, East European, and Balkans history, graduate-level work in oral history, Queer Film & Television, and language courses in French, Russian, and German. She spent a semester abroad in Cork, Ireland, to study traditional Irish music, and also spent a month abroad in Montpellier, France, earning a certificate in Advanced French Studies from the Institut Linguistique d'Adenet. She is currently a law student at the University of Iowa and will graduate in 2009. Her focus is international law and human rights, and she is also studying the Turkish language at the university. Courses include immigration law, foreign policy law, Law in the Muslim World, and seminars in human rights law and policy, human trafficking, and rethinking international law.

Work and Volunteer Experience

Judith is currently a research assistant working on topics including judicial review in French and German administrative law, judicial independence in French administrative law, and judicial review of administrative action in Iowa. She does the majority of her research in the French and German languages. She is also currently the Medicaid Organizer for the Emma Goldman Clinic, a position which includes research, writing, and advocacy. She works in a volunteer capacity for the United Nations Association Iowa, and is currently researching, writing, and editing for a document on immigration in Iowa. She also enjoys volunteering for Justice for Our Neighbors, assisting a local immigration attorney with client intake interviews.

Extracurricular Activities

Judith is a member of the Quire LGBT Mixed Chorus and involved in the Iowa City gay and lesbian community. She is also a member of OutLaws, the LGBT law student group, and vice president of the Iowa Campaign for Human Rights. Other extracurricular pursuits include writing novels and poetry, playing music, and studying languages. She has studied French, German, Russian, Turkish, Italian, Occitan, Maori, ASL, Croatian, and Danish in the past and continues self-study whenever possible.

Unpublished and Online Work

Judith maintains two blogs, A Lesbian & A Scholar and the vegetarian foodblog Shortcut to Mushrooms. She has written unpublished papers on topics including male homosexuality in Renaissance Venice and Florence, the value of history in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, New Zealand film and literature, the lesbian liberation movement in 1960s America, the evolution of the French presidency, and the problem of orientation-based discrimination in international human rights law. She also has written two novels and several short works of historical fiction.