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 William Nelson Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2005-06, a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Maryland School of Law in fall 2008, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University in 2008-09. She is at work on two books:  War-Time:  A Critical History, and How War Made America: A 20th Century History, both 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.