<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear grads,<div><br></div><div>Please sign up for the lunch with our first law & society job candidate, Yuksel Sezgin, on April 27th. We have three slots still open as of Wednesday afternoon. Students with interests in law-related subjects, politics and religion (especially Islamic law and legal pluralism), and/or the Middle East may find Prof. Sezgin’s work particularly interesting.</div><div><br></div><div>It is important both for the candidates to meet our job candidates, and for us on the faculty to hear your impressions of them.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your efforts to make this search a success!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christina Gnuschke <christina.gnuschke@ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Re: [Law & Society Search] Yüksel Sezgin's visit, Mon. April 27, 2026</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 22, 2026 at 12:08:21 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">poscfaculty@lists.ucr.edu, poscgrad@lists.ucr.edu<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Cioffi <cioffi@ucr.edu>, Marcelina Ryneal <marcelina.ryneal@ucr.edu>, Donald Zarate <donald.zarate@ucr.edu>, Lety Vazquez-Angeleri <letyv@ucr.edu>, Candice Jenkins <candicej@ucr.edu>, Adam Hobbs <adam.hobbs@email.ucr.edu><br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Wow you are all amazing!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you everyone who was proactive and signing up to meet with our first L&S candidate.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We have a few more slots left, let's see if we can get them filled by the end of the day!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span class="gmail_default"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank"><font size="4"><b>Recruitment M</b></font></a></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank"><font size="4"><b>eeting <span class="gmail_default">S</span>chedule</b></font></a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><u><b>Monday, April 27th</b></u></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><ul><li>9:30-10am shared meeting 1 slot available</li><li>1:15-2:15pm <u>Grad Student Lunch with Candidate</u> - <b>We have all four spots open!</b> Who will be the first grad student to volunteer for a beautiful lunch at the Stable!? Talk about when opportunity knocks, fill those spots grads!</li><li>2:30-3:30pm coffee in chairs office</li><li>3:30-4pm shared meeting 1 slot available</li><li>5-5:30pm Drive to Mission inn for dinner (adding one more guest)</li><li>6pm Dinner at The State 1 slot available, but also hoping we have another person willing to help drive our candidate back to Mission Inn, and stay for dinner.</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you all so much!</div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Christina
Gnuschke, MBA </b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(237,92,87);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">s</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(243,144,29);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">h</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(245,212,39);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">e</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">/</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,136,42);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">h</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(81,167,249);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">e</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(118,62,155);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">r</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">/</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,100,192);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">h</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,192,64);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">e</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(245,212,39);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">r</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(200,38,19);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">s</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Financial and Administrative Officer</i></p><p class="MsoNormal">CHASS - Economics & Political Science | University of
California, Riverside</p><p class="MsoNormal">2122D Watkins Hall</p><p class="MsoNormal">Riverside, CA 92521</p><p class="MsoNormal">Office: (951) 827-1477 | <a href="mailto:christina.gnuschke@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">christina.gnuschke@ucr.edu</span></a></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><u>Contacts for Frequent Inquiries</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Travel Request</b> <a href="mailto:Chasstravel@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Chasstravel@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Budgets, COA, FFS</b> <a href="mailto:amy.yin@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">amy.yin@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Budgets, Grants, Summer Salary </b> <a href="mailto:Rebecca.wu@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Rebecca.wu@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Payroll, Student Awards, International Scholars</b> <a href="mailto:lety.vazquezangeleri@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">lety.vazquezangeleri@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Purchasing, Reimbursement, Event, Facility</b> <a href="mailto:candicej@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">candicej@ucr.edu</a></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 6:28 PM Christina Gnuschke <<a href="mailto:christina.gnuschke@ucr.edu">christina.gnuschke@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Political Science Faculty and PhD Students,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div>Please join us for the first job talk in the Political Science Department’s Law and Society search. Professor <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span>Yüksel Sezgin will present on <b>Monday, April 27 from 11:<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">4</span>0 a.m. to 1:<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">1</span>0 p.m. in SSC 125.</b><br><br>If you are unable to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed via Zoom for your convenience. We will also have it recorded<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> and sent out after the talk</span> for those of you unable to attend. That said, we strongly encourage in-person attendance whenever possible. We will be serving lunch during the talk, so bring your appetite. <br><br>Please take this opportunity to sign-up for a time to meet with Professor Sezgin via the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span>l<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">inked</span> <span class="gmail_default"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank"><font size="4"><b>Recruitment M</b></font></a></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank"><font size="4"><b>eeting <span class="gmail_default">S</span>chedule</b></font></a>. <b>We are hoping to fill up all slots no later than tomorrow evening (4/22)</b>. The three red <font color="#cc0000">XXX</font>’s are where you will add your name to sign-up.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i> Please note, we are pending a meeting time with Dean Williams, so there could be a slight shift. However, we will do our best to keep everything as it is.</i></span><br><br>For individual meetings, Professor Sezgin will occupy Kevin’s office in Watkins 2122A for most of the day (Thank you Kevin!)<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">.</span><br><br>Attached please find the job talk based on Professor Sezgin’s forthcoming book, which will be published this summer by Cambridge University Press. The attached paper closely reflects his presentation titled “Judging through Narrative: Muslim Family Laws in Non-Muslim Courts”.<br><br>Best,<br><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Christina
Gnuschke, MBA </b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(237,92,87);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">s</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(243,144,29);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">h</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(245,212,39);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">e</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">/</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,136,42);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">h</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(81,167,249);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">e</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(118,62,155);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">r</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">/</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,100,192);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">h</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,192,64);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">e</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(245,212,39);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">r</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(200,38,19);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">s</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Financial and Administrative Officer<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">CHASS - Economics & Political Science | University of
California, Riverside</p><p class="MsoNormal">2122D Watkins Hall</p><p class="MsoNormal">Riverside, CA 92521</p><p class="MsoNormal">Office: (951) 827-1477 | <a href="mailto:christina.gnuschke@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">christina.gnuschke@ucr.edu</span></a></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><u>Contacts for Frequent Inquiries</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Travel Request</b> <a href="mailto:Chasstravel@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Chasstravel@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Budgets, COA, FFS</b> <a href="mailto:amy.yin@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">amy.yin@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Budgets, Grants, Summer Salary </b> <a href="mailto:Rebecca.wu@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Rebecca.wu@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Payroll, Student Awards, International Scholars</b> <a href="mailto:lety.vazquezangeleri@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">lety.vazquezangeleri@ucr.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Purchasing, Reimbursement, Event, Facility</b> <a href="mailto:candicej@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">candicej@ucr.edu</a></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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