Career Highlights

Mary L. Dudziak began her teaching career at the University of Iowa College of Law in 1986, while simultaneously pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale. She received tenure in 1990, and moved to the University of Southern California Law School, first as a Visiting Professor, in 1997. In 2001 she was named the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Professor of Law, and she has joint appointments in History and Political Science. Professor Dudziak was a Fellow in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University in 2002. In 2005-06 she was the William Nelson Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In 2006-07 she had a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, to complete a book, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey. In 2007-08 she was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton and a Guggenheim Fellow.  In 2008-09 she will be an Affiliated Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Maryland School of Law.  Her new book project is How War Made America: A 20th Century History.

Exporting American Dreams was published in July 2008 by Oxford University Press. How War Made America, also with Oxford, will rethink the narrative of 20th century American legal history, by placing war at the center.