Updated 12/15/01

Ross E. Cheit

11 Burr Avenue

Barrington, Rhode Island 02806

Ph.D, Public Policy, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

(1987)

J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (1981)

B.A. with Honors in Political Economy and coordinate major in Environmental Studies,

Williams College (1977)

Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University (1994-

present)

Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University (1986-1993)

Lecturer, Graduate School of Public Policy, UCB. Spring Semester (1984-6)

Public Service Award, Common Cause/Rhode Island (November 1999)

William G. McLoughlin Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences

(April 1998)

Faculty Fellow, Ethics and Public Administration Program, University of Rhode Island

(1994-97)

Presidential Fellowship, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (Summer 1993)

Fellowship, Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions (1990-91)

Fellowship, Henry Wriston Merritt (Brown University, 1990)

Barrett Hazeltine Teaching Citation (Brown University, 1989)

Law Clerk. Oregon Supreme Court. Salem, Oregon. Legal research and analysis for

Associate Justice Hans A. Linde. August 1981 to August 1982.

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Setting Safety Standards: Regulation in the Public and Private Sectors (University of

California Press, 1990)

"How Newspapers Cover Accused Child Molesters," International Journal of Child

Abuse and Neglect (forthcoming 2002)

"Rhode Island Legal System " in Herbert M. Kritzer, ed., Legal Systems of the World: A

Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-Clio,

forthcoming 2002)

"Beyond Memory: Child Abuse and the Statute of Limitations," in Martha Minow and

Nancy Rosenblum, eds., Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law and Repair

(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2002)(co-author)

"The Legend of Robert Halsey," Journal of Child Sexual Abuse (forthcoming 2002)

"When Businesses Sue Each Other: An Empirical Study of State Court Litigation," Law

& Social Inquiry 25(3): 789-816 (Summer 2000)(co-author)

"Junk Skepticism and Recovered Memory: A Reply to Piper," Ethics & Behavior 9(4):

295-318 (1999)

"Consider This, Skeptics of Recovered Memory," Ethics & Behavior 8(2): 141-160

(1998)

"Child Molesters in the Criminal Justice System: A Comprehensive Case-Flow Analysis

of the Rhode Island Docket (1985-1993)," New England Journal on Criminal and

Confinement, 23(2): 267-301. (Summer 1997) (Primary author)

"State Adoption of Model Insurance Codes: An Empirical Analysis," Publius: The

Journal of Federalism 23(4)(Fall 1993)

"How Not to Reform Auto Insurance," The Public Interest (Summer 1991), No. 104, pp.

"The Rhode Island Credit Union Crisis," Comparative State Politics (August 1991) Vol.

1992-1993 (1992)

"Corporate Ambulance Chasers: The Charmed Life of Business Litigation," Studies in

Law, Politics and Society (1991), Vol. 11: pp. 119-140

"Competing Models of Fair Representation: The Perfunctory Processing Cases," Boston

College Law Review (1982), Vol. 24: pp. 1-44

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"Are Sitting Judges Sitting Ducks?" California State Bar Journal (October 1980), Vol.

54, pp. 414-421. (Co-author)

Note, "The Energy Mobilization Board," Ecology Law Quarterly (1980), Vol. 8, No. 4:

727-47

Public Courts, Private Records: A Study of Confidentiality and Accessibility in the Rhode

Island Court System (October 2000)

Open or Shut: Access to Information in Rhode Island’s Cities & Towns (April 1999)

Access to Public Records: An Audit of Rhode Island’s Cities and Towns (March 1998)

Access Denied: A Report on the General Assembly’s Compliance with the Letter and

Spirit of the Open Meetings Law (written with the Rhode Island Secretary of

State)(January 1998)

Carved in Sand: Gregorian Commission Report on the Collapse of RISDIC (April 1991)

"Evaluation of Rhode Island Legal Services," prepared for the Rhode Island Bar

Foundation (1987)

"Scams and Schemers," Brown Alumni Monthly (May 1997)

"Traffic Safety Reform," Policy Currents (February 1992)

"Risk and Culture," Ecology Law Quarterly (1983), Vol. 11, No. 2: 241-263.

Presenter, "Memory, Law and Repair," Gilbane Symposium; Brown University

(November 19, 1999)

Panelist, "Sites of Construction: Risks Talks Across Institutions." Insurance, Risk and

Responsibility Conference (University of Connecticut; April 11, 1999)

Roundtable on Sexual Violence, Language and the Law. Annual Meeting of the Law &

Society Association (Aspen, Colorado, June 4-6, 1998)

"The Science and Politics of Recovered Memory," Plenary presentation, Annual Meeting

of the American Psychological Association (Chicago, Ill., August 18, 1997)

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"The Backlash Against Child Sexual Abuse," Keynote Address, Northeast Child

Maltreatment Conference, APSAC; Providence (November 15, 1999)

Integrative Symposium, Annual Meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association;

Providence, R.I. (April 16, 1999)

"Junk Skepticism and Recovered Memory," Keynote Address, Sixteenth International

Conference of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation; Miami, Florida

(November 12, 1999)

"The Backlash Against Child Sexual Abuse," Twelfth International Congress

on Child Abuse and Neglect (Auckland, New Zealand, September 6-9, 1998)

"The Science and Politics of Recovered Memory," Department of Psychology, University

of Auckland (September 5, 1998).

Board of Directors, ACCESS/RI (1996- )

Member, Faculty Advisory Board and Faculty Fellow for Royce Program, Swearer Center

for Public Service (1994- )

Board of Directors, Rhode Island Rape Crisis Center (1994-2000)

Member, Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee (1997-98)

Member, Search Committee for Vice-President for Development (1997-8)

Chair, Commencement Speaker Selection Committee (1993-95)

Rhode Island Supreme Court's Ethics Commission (Fall, 1991)

Reviewed manuscripts for: American Journal of Political Science; Congressional

Quarterly Press; Georgetown University Press; Law and Social Inquiry; Law and Society;

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Law and Public Policy (seminar)

Children and Public Policy

Introduction to Public Policy (enrollment approx. 150)

The Criminal Justice System in Rhode Island

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Member, American Political Science Association

Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

Member, Law and Society Association

Member, California Bar (inactive)