Ashley Berman
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Office Number: RH 103
Office Phone: 815-753-1038
FAX Number: 815-753-1074
Email: ashberman@googlemail.com
Office Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays 12:00-1:00 p.m.; and by appointment

Ashley Berman is beginning her second year at the NIU College of Law. She began her legal studies in Fall 2006, immediately following her graduation from North Central College in Naperville, IL. Ashley graduated from North Central with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Organizational Communications and Political Science. Although not a Women’s Studies major, Ashley did her best to integrate her passion for women’s issues into her course work whenever she could completing various research projects, the most notable of which was a thesis entitled “The Rhetoric of Mary Wollstonecraft and Its Place in the Modern British Feminist Movement.” Through an ideological criticism of three of Wollstonecraft’s most prominent works, Ashley sought to explore why Wollstonecraft’s works have been a source of contempt for British feminists and what the condemnation of Wollstonecraft’s works by British feminists says about the contemporary British feminist movement. Following her legal studies at NIU, Ashley hopes to pursue a career in criminal law as either a criminal prosecutor or public defender. In her free time, Ashley enjoys listening to music, creative writing, watching movies, spending time with friends and family, chatting on AIM with her boyfriend who is an Army medical evacuation pilot in Iraq, walking her dog Sophie, and eating lots of junk food.