Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Last Name

Dudziak

City

Atlanta

State

Georgia

Zip Code

30322

Research Interests

Legal History, Presidential Power, Endless War, Civil Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations

Willing to be contacted by the media

Yes

On the academic market

No

University

Emory University

About Me

Mary L. Dudziak is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. A leading legal historian and United States and the World scholar, she is past-President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and is an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History. She serves on the Historical Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of State, and an inaugural nonresident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Dudziak is currently writing a revisionist account of the decline of democratic restraints on the war power: Going to War: An American History (under contract, Oxford University Press). She has also authored War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2012); Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey (Oxford University Press, 2008); Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2000, 2nd ed. 2011). Edited works include September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (Duke University Press, 2003), and with Leti Volpp, Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (special issue of American Quarterly, reissued by Johns Hopkins University Press (2006). She is co-editing with Mark Bradley Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American War (forthcoming). Dudziak’s research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, the Library of Congress Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance, and others. She has been a distinguished visitor at Duke, Harvard, and the University of Maryland, and previously taught at the University of Southern California, and the University of Iowa. She holds an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. and Ph.D. (American Studies) from Yale University.

Email

mary.dudziak@emory.edu