Professor Hatcher (Ph.D., University of Massachussetts, 2002) joined the SIUC faculty in Fall 2006. Prior to that, she spent two years as a visitor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004-2006), and was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions (2003-2004). Professor Hatcher’s research centers on the production of legal ideology, specifically beliefs about property and land ownership through administrative practice and legal activism. Her work has been published in both the U.K. and the U.S in journals such as Current Legal Issues, International Journal of Law and Semiotics, and the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Along with Wayne McIntosh, she is co-editor of Property Rights and Neoliberalism: Cultural Demands and Legal Actions, under contract with Ashgate Press. Her current work includes a book project entitled Drawing Lines in the Sand: Takings and the Mobilization of Libertarian Legal Activism.