Faculty Mentor

Douglas Cantor holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago with specializations in Urban Politics, Public Law, and Constitutional Law. His dissertation, Terms for Debate, examined movements for term limits at the local level of American politics and situated the story of term limits within the history of municipal reform. He also holds a M.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Baltimore, a B.A. from Rutgers University in Political Science, and an A.A. in Journalism from Brookdale. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northern Illinois University, California State University - Long Beach, and Loyola Marymount University. His teaching and research interests include Constitutional Law, water law and policy, housing law and policy, urban politics, American politics, privatization, and judicial politics. At Rutgers, Dr. Cantor's course offerings include Law and Politics, Law and Society, Constitutional Law, Courts and Public Policy, as well as seminars on topics such as Water Politics and Housing Segregation. His first book, Term Limits and the Modern Era of Municipal Reform, is set to publish  in the Spring of 2024.