Christine Nemacheck

Background

Professor Christine Nemacheck joined the Department in 2002.  She is an Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Center for the Liberal Arts. Nemacheck serves as W&M's pre-law advisor.  She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from The George Washington University. Her research focuses on judicial selection, judicial federalism, and the role of the courts in a separation-of-powers system. Her book, Strategic Selection: Presidential Selection of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush, was published in 2007. Other work on judicial selection has appeared in political science and law review journals. Her research, which is primarily archival, has been funded by numerous grants and awards from presidential library foundations. She is also the co-author, along with David Magleby and Paul Light, of Government by the People, an introductory American politics textbook.  Nemacheck has received a number of awards for her teaching and research activity, including the Alumni Fellowship Award for excellence in teaching at William & Mary and a Coco Faculty Fellowship.  She was named a Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in 2010 and was an Alumni Memorial Term Distinguished Associate Professor from 2010-2013. She is the former co-editor of the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics, which was housed at W&M between the fall 2010 and spring 2013 semesters.  Nemacheck also co-directs the Dunn Civil Liberties Project and supervises students' independent civil liberties research associated with the Project.

The Pre-Law Advising website can be found at: www.wm.edu/as/government/prelawadvising.

Courses

Government 201: Introduction to American Politics

Government 372: American Legal Process

Government 373: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Government Department Seminars

• Federalism and the United States Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court's Religious Liberties Jurisprudence
• Constitutional Law
• The Politics of Religious Liberties
• The Politics of Criminal Suspects Rights

Dunn Civil Liberties Workshops & Research Seminars

William & Mary in Washington Semester Program Courses fall 2006, spring 2017, and spring break intensive courses