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Oral history interview with Janet I. Warren regarding her involvement with the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy starting in 1981. She discusses her work providing training on conducting forensic evaluations for the courts, serving as the UVA liaison to the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit, and conducting research for the Boy Scouts of America. She is now Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at UVA.
Oral history interview with Paul Appelbaum regarding his work with the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. Appelbaum founded the Law & Psychiatry program at the University of Massachusetts in 1985 and has worked closely with ILPPP since that time. Appelbaum is now the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law and director of the Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia University.
Oral history interview with UVA Law professor John T. Monahan regarding his work with the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. Monahan, a psychologist, was hired to teach at the Law School in 1980 and has worked closely with Richard J. Bonnie and ILPPP since then. He has directed two research networks for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation related to mental health law.
Oral history interview with Christopher Slobogin, class of 1977, regarding his work as ILPPP’s second mental health law fellow. Slobogin discusses the founding years of the institute, his work with the Western State Hospital and Forensic Psychiatry Clinic in the late 1970s, and the impact of ILPPP on his scholarship and career.
Oral history interview with W. Lawrence Fitch regarding his work with the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy in the 1980s and 1990s as well as the institute’s impact on the field of mental health law. From 1982-1994, Fitch served as an associate professor at UVA Law and director of the Forensic Evaluation Training and Research Center at the institute.
Oral history interview with UVA Law alum (1969) and professor emeritus Richard J. Bonnie in which he recalls the early years of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy and the budding field of mental health law during the 1970s.
Oral history interview with John Petrila, class of 1976, regarding his work as ILPPP’s first mental health law fellow. Petrila discusses the founding years of the institute and its impact on his career.
Oral history interview with UVA Law professor and alum D. Ruth Buck (1985) who recalls her time as a law student and discusses her experiences teaching Legal Research and Writing.
Aaron Eichorst shares his experiences growing up as a Mennonite and his complicated relationship with the Mennonite Church after coming out. He discusses the gay community in Charlottesville and several gay bars that are now closed, including the Silver Fox, Club 216, and Escafe. Aaron also describes his experiences as an art teacher and deciding when and how to be out with his coworkers and students.
Alan Cohn and Joe Montoya are a gay couple - one of the first to be legally married in Charlottesville in 2014. They discuss how they met and how they each grew into their identities. They moved to Charlottesville in 1991 for professional opportunities, and they describe their experiences with the Charlottesville queer community. They discuss the process of having a child via surrogate and the legal complications around custody, including the decision to get married as soon as it became legal.
Blaise Spinelli was one of the founders of the AIDS Services Group (ASG) in Charlottesville, and the bulk of his interview is spent discussing his experiences providing AIDS services in Charlottesville and his memories of the AIDS epidemic. Blaise also shares his experiences with gay community in Charlottesville and how it compares to gay community he experienced in other places like Washington, DC. Blaise was involved in an attempt to create a gay community center, and he remembers local gay bars and events with activists.
Catherine Gillespie and Andre Hakes are a married lesbian couple who live in Charlottesville. In their interview, they discuss the process of adopting their child and their protracted fight for custody in the legal system. They were the first couple to get married in Charlottesville when it became legal in 2014, and their marriage followed years of activism around marriage that they describe. They also share their experiences of queer community in Charlottesville and discuss gender presentation and transgender issues today.
Charlene Green is a Black lesbian who came to Charlottesville in the late 1980s to attend the University of Virginia for graduate school. In her interview, she discusses her experiences coming out, especially as a Black woman at a women's college, and her experiences with the Black gay community in Charlottesville. Charlene has held a number of jobs in the Charlottesville area, including with Albemarle County Public Schools and the City of Charlottesville's Human Rights Commission, and she discusses her time in those roles.
Charley Burton is a Black trans man from North Garden, VA, just outside of Charlottesville. He tells his story of growing up in a rural Black community, then struggling with his gender and sexuality and recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. Charley transitioned as an older person, and he discusses his transition process and his work creating community for other Black trans people in the Charlottesville area. He speaks about the murder of Sage Smith, a young Black trans woman in Charlottesville, and about becoming a Black man, especially after the Unite the Right rally of August 2017.
Claire Kaplan is a lesbian who worked in the Maxine Platzer Lynn's Women's Center at the University of Virginia for a long time. In this interview, she discusses her work at UVA, including her role in founding UVA Pride (the first group for LGBTQ+ employees at UVA). She also shares her story of coming out and her activism in Los Angeles before coming to Virginia. Additionally, she discusses her Jewish identity and her memories of the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. She describes the process of adopting her daughter with her wife and her experiences with the Charlottesville and UVA queer communities more broadly.
