Online Pre-law Summer Series - Faculty

Rorie Spill Solberg, Department of Political Science
Rorie Solberg is an associate professor with the political science department and the pre-law adviser. She has been teaching for fifteen years, eight of which have been with Oregon State University. She received her masters and doctorate from Ohio State University in Political Science with an emphasis in the judiciary. Her most recent work focuses on the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court and the development of policy by the U.S. Courts of Appeals. She is also working on a book manuscript examining media coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court and how that coverage may be building a new myth of the Court. Professor Solberg has numerous articles in such publications as Judicature, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Justice Systems Journal, American Politics Research, as well as numerous other journals. 

Courses: PS 126; PS 321

Karen Holmberg, Department of English
Dr. Karen Holmberg holds the Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri, and the M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of California-Irvine. An experienced teacher of composition, critical writing, and editing and publishing, she teaches courses in the Writing Intensive Curriculum at Oregon State University, where she is an Assistant Professor of English. She is the author of a collection of poems, The Perseids, and her poems have been published widely in such national magazines as The Paris Review, The Nation, Quarterly West, Southern Poetry Review, and Subtropics.

Course: WR 399

Sharyn Clough, Department of Philosophy
Sharyn Clough is an associate professor of philosophy at Oregon State University. She uses a contemporary pragmatist approach to semantics as a tool to investigate the role of feminist and other values in scientific practice. She is the author of Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies (Rowman and Littlefield 2003), and the editor of Siblings Under the Skin: Feminism, Social Justice and Analytic Philosophy (Davies Group 2003). In addition, she has written a number of essays and reviews for journals such as Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Social Epistemology, Social Philosophy and Hypatia.

Course: PHL 321