In 2022, Mary R. Rose, Ph.D., was named the Director of UT’s Human Dimensions of Organizations program at The University of Texas at Austin.
She is also a professor of Sociology where she teaches courses on social science and law as well as social psychology and research methods.
Rose is an Affiliated Scholar at the American Bar Foundation and an Academic Fellow with the National Civil Justice Institute. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT.
Her research examines lay participation in the legal system and perceptions of justice. She has written on a variety of topics including the effects of jury selection practices on jury representativeness and citizens’ views of justice, jury trial innovations, civil damage awards, and public views of court practices.
She is also an investigator on the landmark study of decision making among 50 deliberating juries from Pima County, Arizona. She has served on the editorial boards of Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Criminology, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Law & Human Behavior and is a former trustee of the Law & Society Association.
Her research has been cited in numerous court cases, including three U.S. Supreme Court cases: Miller-el v. Dretke (Breyer, J., concurring); Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker and Ramos v. Louisiana.