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's scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University, and others. She was the John Hope Franklin Chair in American Legal History as a Visiting Professor at Duke Law School in the fall of 2011, a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Maryland School of Law in fall 2008, and the William Nelson Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2005-06. Her newest book, War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, has just been published by Oxford University Press in fall 2011. Her next project, How War Made America: A 20th Century History, is also under contract with Oxford University Press.
Exporting American Dreams was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy appeared in 2000 from Princeton University Press. Other works are here.
Teaching Interests:
20th Century U.S. Constitutional History, Civil Rights History, Law and War in the 20th Century, America and the World, American Legal History,
Constitutional Law, Equality and Liberty (advanced course on the 14th Amendment and other constitutional rights), Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Politics in Africa
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Dudziak lives in Santa Monica, California and Washington, D.C. with her her husband Bill, and her dog Frank. Her daughter Alicia is a college junior.
