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| Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law School. Her research focuses on international approaches to American legal history. She has written extensively about the impact of foreign affairs on civil rights policy during the Cold War and other topics in 20th-century American legal history. Her newest book is a transnational history about Thurgood Marshall’s work with Kenya nationalists in the 1960s, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (Oxford University Press, 2008) Her next book project will look broadly at the impact of war on American law and politics during the 20th century. In 2007-08 Professor Dudziak was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. This year she is a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Maryland School of Law, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Warren Center for American History, Harvard University. More About the Author USC Web Page SSRN Page About the Books Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey "In this gem of a book, Mary Dudziak brings vividly to life the important but little known history of Thurgood Marshall's intense involvement with Kenya during its journey toward independence in the 1960s....A powerful and poignant story, beautifully told."--Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University Book Blog: Exporting American Dreams Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy "Impressively researched and vividly written. . . . Convincingly demonstrates how Cold War pressures both empowered and constrained the civil rights movement's quest to build a more just America." Rogers M. Smith author of Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History "Groundbreaking."--American Lawyer "Dudziak's book will inspire a reconsideration of postwar civil rights history."--Alex Lubin, American Quarterly
September 11 in History "I am exhilarated by the collective wisdom, creativity, and insight of this unusual yet riveting distillation of perspectives on September 11."—Bruce Lawrence, author of Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders "By weaving together colorful and contentious strands of culture, history and law, these essays make a compelling argument that "it is in its bleeding borders that law itself, and with it American identity, is constructed, contested, and made meaningful." Harvard Law Review Works-in-Progress: How War Made America: A Twentieth Century History (under contract with Oxford University Press) | |
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