July 09

Elizabeth Dale

University of Florida

edale@history.ufl.edu

 

P.O. Box 117320

http://plaza.ufl.edu/edale

 

Gainesville, Florida 32611

http://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/dale

 

352.392.0271 ex 262

http://ssrn.com/author=916245

 

 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. Legal History

University of Chicago, June 1995

 

J.D. (with Honors)

Chicago-Kent College of Law, June 1984

 

B.A. in Ancient Greek

DePauw University, June 1981

 

 

Swarthmore College, 1977-1979

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

University of Florida,

Gainesville, Florida

2000 to present

 

Department of History

Associate Professor, Legal History, 2002 to present

 

 

Assistant Professor, Legal History, 2000-2002

 

Levin College of Law

Affiliated Professor, Legal History

 

Center for Gender & Women’s Studies

Affiliated Faculty

 

Shandong University Law School

Jinan, Peoples’ Republic of China

February-June 2005

Fulbright Professor

 

Clemson University,

Clemson, South Carolina

1995-2000

 

Department of History

Assistant Professor, Legal History

 

DePaul University,

Chicago, Illinois

January-June 1994

Visiting Instructor of World History

 

Department of History

 

 

University of Chicago,

Chicago, Illinois

1992-1994

Preceptor, Senior Thesis Seminar

 

Department of History

 

 

John Marshall Law School,

Chicago, Illinois

1990-1992

Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing II

 

Law Office of Kenneth N. Flaxman,

Chicago, Illinois

1985-1990

Attorney (civil rights and employment law)

 

Katz, Friedman, Schur and Eagle,

Chicago, Illinois

1983-1984

Law clerk (labor law)

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Books:

 

 

The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis, History of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Series (Ohio State University Press, 2001)

 

Debating – and Creating – Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal, Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649, Law, Justice and Power Series (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd (England), 2001

 

 

Articles:

 

 

“It Makes Nothing Happen: Reasons for Studying the History of Law,” Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities  5 (2009): 3

 

“Death or Transformation? Educational Autonomy in the Roberts Court” 2006-2007 Supreme Court Review, guest editor Erwin Chermerinsky, Tulsa Law Review 43 (2008): 725

 

People v. Coughlin and the Criminal Jury in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” Northern Illinois University Law Review 28 (2008): 503

 

“Employee Speech & Management Rights: A Counterintuitive Reading of Garcetti v. Ceballos,” Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 29 (2008): 175

 

“Review Essay: Two Ways of Looking at the Founding,” Histories: Reviews of New Books (Summer 2007)

 

“Forum Essay: Getting Away with Murder,” American Historical Review 111 (February 2006): 95

 

“A Constitutionalist Perspective: Review of The Communitarian Constitution by Beau Breslin, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty 1 (2005): 931

 

“A Different Sort of Justice: The Informal Courts of Public Opinion in Antebellum South Carolina,” South Carolina Law Review 54 (Spring 2003): 627

 

“Local Problem or National Failure? Murder in New York: Review essay: Homicide in New York by Eric Monnkonen, The Murder of Helen Jewett by Patricia Cline Cohen, and Murder Most Foul by Karen Haltunnen” Reviews in American History 29 (2001): 352

 

“Not Simply Black and White: Jury Power and Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” Social Science History 25 (Spring 2001): 7

 

“The People versus Zephyr Davis: Law and Popular Justice in late Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” Law and History Review 17 (January 1999): 27

 

“‘Social Equality Does Not Exist Among Themselves, Nor Among Us’: Baylies v. Curry and Civil Rights in Chicago, 1888,” American Historical Review 102 (April 1997): 311

 

“Law and Humanities,” Focus on Law Studies: Teaching about Law in the Liberal Arts 13 (Fall 1997): 10

 

“Conflicts of Law: Reconsideration of the Influence of Religion on Law in Massachusetts Bay,” Numen, International Review for the History of Religion (Leiden) 43 (1996): 139

 

“The End of the World as We Know It?  Making Sense of Planned Parenthood v. Casey,” Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report 3 (Sept.-Oct. 1992): 193

 

“Sometimes the EEOC is Just Wrong: Arguments for Retroactive Application of the Civil Rights Act of 1991,” Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report  3 (March-April 1992): 157

 

City of Canton, Ohio and Failure to Train Cases: Avoiding the Snares,” Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report  3 (Jan.-Feb. 1991): 79

 

“When Can Misdemeanor Arrestees be Strip Searched?  A Review of the Rules in the Circuits” (Part 2 of two-part series), Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report 2 (Nov.-Dec. 1989): 205

 

“When Can Misdemeanor Arrestees be Strip Searched?  A Review of the Rules in the Circuits” (Part 1 of two-part series),  Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report 2 (Sept.-Oct. 1989): 199  

 

Book chapters:

 

 

“Women: Law and Rights,” forthcoming in Women in American History, edited by Hasia Diner

“Criminal Justice in the United States, 1780-1920: A Government of Laws or Men?” Cambridge History of Law in America, vol. 2, Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, editors (2008): 133

“Marriage as a Metaphor in Massachusetts in the Seventeenth Century,” Women and Freedom in Early America, edited by Larry Eldridge (NYU Press, 1997): 229

 

Book reviews:

 

 

Review forthcoming in Law and History Review

 

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz, Journal of American History 96 (2009): 260

 

Thurman Arnold: A Biography by Spencer Weber Waller, 25 Law and History Review 435 (2007)

 

Black Chicago’s First Century, Vol. 1: 1833-1900 by Christopher Robert Reed, Journal of American History 93 (2006): 237

 

The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: The Faces of Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America by Christopher Waldrep, American Studies 45 (2004): 141

 

Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era by Michael A. Ross, Journal of American History 91 (2004): 1029

 

City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago by Michael Willrich, American Historical Review 109 (2004): 548

 

Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 by Barbara Young Welke, American Historical Review 108 (2003): 200

 

Murder Most Foul by Karen Haltunnen, Law and History Review 21 (2003): 230

 

Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse by H. Lee Cheek and Calhoun’s Philosophy of Politics: A Study of the Disquisition on Government by Guy Story Brown, South Carolina Historical Magazine 103 (2002): 265

 

At Freedom’s Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina edited by James Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, Journal of Southern History 68 (2002): 471

 

“Belonging to the World”: Women’s Rights and American Constitutional Culture by Sandra F. VanBurkleo, American Journal of Legal History 4 (2000): 516

 

Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and Law by Helle Porsdam, Law and Politics Book Review (on line reviews, http://www.unt.edu/lbpr), March 24, 2000

 

Justice, Democracy and the Jury by James Gobert, Law and Politics Book Review (on line reviews, http://www.unt.edu/lbpr), March 3, 1999

 

Sexual Harassment: A Debate by Linda Lemoncheck and Mane Hajdin, H-Net Reviews (on line reviews, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/), October 10, 1997 

 

Of “Good Laws” and “Good Men:” Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1710 by William Offutt, Journal of Religion (April 1997): 323

 

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 by Thomas D. Morris, North Carolina Historical Review 73 (July 1996): 383

 

Scottsboro Stories by James Goodman, Law and History Review 14 (Spring 1996): 189

 

Making America:  A History of the United States by Carol Berkin, Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherny, and James L. Gormly, H-Teach and H-Survey (on line reviews, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/), May 22, 1994

 

 

 

PAPER’S PRESENTED

 

 

 

 

“Law and History: The Garden and the Wilderness as Constitutional History,” American Academy of Religion, national conference, November 2008

“The Memorial Day Massacre in Legal History,” Law, Culture and Humanities Association annual meeting, March 2007

 

“The Northerner and the Law: Popular Justice, Public Opinion, and Law in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Society for Historians of the Early Republic, July 2003

“Reconsidering the ‘Social’ in Social Control: Extralegal Justice in Antebellum South Carolina,” American Historical Association, January 2002

“An Informal Court of Public Opinion: Extralegal Law in Antebellum South Carolina,” Historical Society of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, Third Annual Conference, April 2001

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the American Society for Legal History Conference, October 2000 and the Legal Research Workshop, Washington and Lee Law School, April 2000

Vox Populi: Notes Towards a Legal History of Everyday Life,” Faculty Development Seminar, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, February 2001

“Not Simply Black or White: Jury Power and the Rule of Law Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” Social Science History Conference, November 1998

“The People versus Zephyr Davis: Law and the Public Sphere, Chicago, 1888,” American Society for Legal History Conference, October 1997

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Law and Society Association, May 1997; and at the Social Science History Association, October 1996

“Conflicts of Law: Reconsideration of the Influence of Religion on Law in Massachusetts Bay,” Law and Society Association, June 1995

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the American Academy of Religion National Conference, November 1994

“Snares of Conscience: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637,” Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Divinity School, University of Chicago, November 1994

“A Trial is Not a Western: Trials and the Construction of Identity,” Social Science History Conference, October 1994

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Law and Society Association, June 1994

“Conflicts of Law: A Reconsideration of Law in Massachusetts Bay,” American Academy of Religion Midwestern Conference, April 1994

“‘disturbances, divisions and contentions. . . both in church and state’: Some Notes Towards the Relation of Law and Religion in Anne Hutchinson’s Trial,” series on Law, Religion, and the Construction of Identity at the Divinity School, University of Chicago, February 1994

“‘Social Equality Does Not Exist Among Themselves, Nor Among Us”: Community and Civil Rights in Chicago, 1888,” Comparative Legal History Workshop, University of Chicago, February 1994

“A Map is No Community: Multiple Allegiances and Overlapping Identities in the First Decade of Settlement, Massachusetts Bay,”  New England Historical Association, October 1993

“Questions of Authority, Locations of Power: A Consideration of Contemporary Accounts of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson,” Social History Workshop, University of Chicago, October 1993

 

 

 

 

OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

 

Chair, Panel on Crime and Punishment, American Society for Legal History, November 2006

 

Commentator, Panel on Religion and the Rule of Law, Law and Society Association, July 2006

 

Commentator, Panel on Religion and Law in Historical Perspective, Law and Society Association, May 2004

 

Commentator, Panel on Public Opinion and Law in Nineteenth Century America, American Society for Legal History, November 2003

 

Commentator, Panel on Finding Legal Meaning in the Past, Association of Law, Culture and the Humanities, March 2003

 

Panelist, The Reach of Religion: Why Understanding Religion is Necessary for Understanding Law, Mini-Plenary Session, Law and Society Association/Canadian Law and Society Association, May 2002

 

Commentator, Panel on Gender and Violence. Social Science History Conference, October 2000

 

Commentator, Panel on Statistical Analysis of Homicide Rates. Social Science History Conference, October 1999

 

 

 

 

GUEST LECTURES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

“American Citizenship: From English Background to the Civil War,” talk for Manatee Public School Teachers, part of a seminar on Civil Liberties in the United States, sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council, April 2009

 

Speaker at Law in the Swamp, Pre-Law Honors Society, University of Florida, March 2009

 

Speaker at Pre-Law Honors Society meeting, University of Florida, October 2008

 

Speaker at Law in the Swamp, Pre-Law Honors Society, University of Florida, March 2008

 

Speaker at Legal Education and Legal Practice, Florida Blue Key Honor Society workshop, University of Florida, February 2008

 

Speaker at Legal Education and Legal Practice, Florida Blue Key Honor Society workshop, University of Florida, January 2007

 

“Citizenship, the Founding Fathers and the Constitutional Convention,” all-day workshop for high school teachers in Miami, Florida, part of The Circle of We: The Expanding Definition of American Citizenship, sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council, funded by an N.E.H. Grant, August 2006

 

“An Update on Title IX,” talk for the American Association of University Women, Gainesville Chapter, April 2006

 

Member, Constitution Day Discussion Panel. University of Florida, September 2005

 

“Constitutional Language,” guest lecture to the Foreign Language School (undergraduate and graduate students), Shandong University, Jinan, PRC, June 2005

 

“Overview of the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution,” guest lecture at the Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PRC, May 2005

 

“New York Times v. Sullivan and its Progeny,” guest lecture, media law class, Shanghai International Studies University, Songjiang Campus, Shanghai, PRC, May 2005

 

“Roper v. Simmons and Federalism in the U.S. Constitution,” guest lecture at the Law School, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, PRC, April 2005

 

“Legal Education and Legal Practice in America,” discussion session at the Law School, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, PRC, April 2005

 

“The Importance of Writing in History,” taped lecture for the University of Florida Writing Program, Fall 2003

 

“Barron v. Baltimore, A Lost Moment in Constitutional History,” talk for the Constitution Week Dinner, the Sons of the American Revolution, Gainesville Chapter, September 2003

 

Judge, Moot Court, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies 25th Anniversary Celebration, University of Florida, October 2002

 

“Anne Hutchinson’s Trial before the General Court of Massachusetts Bay,” Law and Religion Seminar, Washington and Lee University, Department of Religion, April 2000

 

“Book Censorship in High School Libraries,” lecture as part of the Banned Book Week Celebration, Clemson University, September 1999

 

“Pornography, adult entertainment, zoning laws, and the First Amendment,” talk for the A.C.L.U., Piedmont (South Carolina) Branch, November 1996

 

 

 

WEBLOGS

 

United Faculty of Florida-UF: News and Information, at http://uff-ufnews.blogspot.com/ (maintained for UFF-UF)

 

 

 

GRANTS & AWARDS

 

 

Research:

 

Humanities Enhancement Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Summer 2009

 

Full year, half-pay sabbatical, University of Florida, 2006-2007 (declined)

 

Fulbright Lecturer/Research Scholar, Shandong University College of Law, Jinan, People’s Republic of China, Spring 2005

 

Humanities Research Grant, University of Florida College of Arts and Sciences, 2001

 

Research Grant, South Carolina Bar Association, 2000-2001

 

Fellowship, Newberry Library, June 1999

 

University Research Grant, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

Graduate student participant, Law and Society Association Summer Institute, 1995

 

Editorial Intern, Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture, Wilder House, University of Chicago, 1994-1995

 

Junior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study of Religion, Divinity School, University of Chicago, 1994 –1995

 

Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1994-1995

 

High Pass on Ph.D. Qualifying Exams, University of Chicago, 1992

 

Century Scholarship, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1991-1993

 

Phoenix Fellowship, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1991-1993

 

Member, Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1982-1984

 

American Jurisprudence Award, Labor Law I, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1983

 

Dean’s List, Chicago-Kent College of Law (multiple semesters)

 

Merit Scholarship, Chicago-Kent College of Law

 

Georgia Watkins Award, Excellence in Ancient Greek, DePauw University, 1980

 

National Merit Finalist, 1977

 

Teaching:

 

Norman Wilensky Graduate Teaching Award, History Department, University of Florida, Spring 2008

 

Anderson/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar (Undergraduate) Faculty Mentor, University of Florida, Fall 2002, Fall 2001

 

Mahon Award for Undergraduate Teaching, History Department, University of Florida, Spring 2001

 

Library Laurel, Clemson University, Fall 1999 (gift to library made in faculty member’s honor)

 

Humanities Board Teaching Initiative Award, with Thomas Kuehn, for preparation of materials relating to a class on the comparative law of slavery, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

Teaching Innovation Fund Grant, for Senior Research Seminar, Clemson University, 1996-1997

 

Teaching Innovation Fund Grant, for Graduate Seminar in Law and History, Clemson University, 1996-1997

 

Platform of Collaboration Grant, with Thomas Kuehn, for preparation of comparative law course on slavery, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

Mini-Grant, A.B.A. Commission on Undergraduate Education, funding for preparation of comparative law course, with Thomas Kuehn, Department of History, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

 

Platform of Collaboration Grant, Prelaw Speaker Series, Clemson University, 1996-1997

 

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

 

Graduate (History and Law):

 

 

Comparative Constitutional History, University of Florida, Levin College of Law and Department of History (law student/grad seminar, Fall 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003)

 

Nineteenth Century America, University of Florida, Department of History (grad seminar, Spring 2009, Fall 2004)

 

American Constitutional History: Citizenship, University of Florida, Department of History and Levin College of Law (graduate student/law student seminar, Spring 2009, Spring 2008)

 

Proseminar: Teaching American Legal History, University of Florida, Department of History (Fall 2006)

American Legal History (Law and Work), University of Florida, Levin College of Law and Department of History (law student/grad course, Spring 2006)

American Constitutional Law, Shandong University Law School, PRC (law student course, Spring 2005)

American Legal History and Legal Reasoning, Shandong University Law School, PRC (law student  course, Spring 2005)

Readings in Legal History Seminar, University of Florida, Department of History (grad seminar, Fall 2004)

Early American History, University of Florida, Department of History (grad seminar, Spring 2004)

Civil Liberties in Times of War and Trouble, University of Florida, Levin College of Law and Department of History (law student/grad seminar, Spring 2002)

American Legal History, University of Florida, Levin College of Law and Department of History (law student/grad course, Spring 2003, 2001)

The Denmark Vesey Case. A Trial in American History, Clemson University (grad/undergrad seminar, Spring 2000)

Legal History of Civil Rights in the US, Clemson University (grad/undergrad seminar, Spring 2000)

Legal Culture of the South, Clemson University (grad seminar, Spring 1999)

Famous American Trials, Clemson University (grad seminar, Fall 1999)

Women and Law in U.S. History, Clemson University (grad/undergrad seminar, Fall 1999)

Legal Research for Historians, Clemson University (grad/undergrad course, Maymester 1999, 1997)

Legal Writing II (appellate briefing), John Marshall Law School, Chicago (1991-1992, 1990-1991)

 

 

Undergraduate:

 

Constitutional History of the United States until 1877, University of Florida (Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2001, 2000)

 

Constitutional History of the Founding Era, University of Florida (Spring 2009)

 

The First Amendment: A History Practicum, University of Florida (Fall 2008)

 

Senior Seminar: History of a Supreme Court Case (Gideon v. Wainwright), University of Florida (Fall 2008)

 

Constitutional History of the United States from 1877 to the present, University of Florida (Spring 2008, 2002, 2001)

 

 

American Legal History, University of Florida (Fall 2006, 2000)

 

South Carolina versus Martin Posey: A Trial as Social History, University of Florida (junior seminar, Fall 2005)

 

South Carolina versus Nettles and Cannon: A Study of Legal Culture, University of Florida (junior seminar, Fall 2002)

 

Women in American Legal History, University of Florida (junior seminar, Fall 2001)

 

Historical Methods Seminar, Clemson University (senior seminar, Fall 1999)

 

Crime and Law in US History, Clemson University (senior seminar, Fall 1996)

 

U.S. Legal History to 1890, Clemson University (Fall 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995)

 

U.S. Legal History from 1890, Clemson University (Spring 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995)

 

Western Civilization to 1689, Clemson University (Summer 1998)

 

U.S. History to 1877, Clemson University (various semesters 1995-1998)

 

World Civilizations to 1500, DePaul University (Winter quarter, 1994)

 

World Civilizations from 1500 to 1919, DePaul University (Spring quarter, 1994)

 

B.A. Paper Seminar, University of Chicago (1993-94,1992-1993)

 

 

 

THESIS & DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

 

Ph.D. Thesis Committee Chair:

 

Patricia Farless, University of Florida (History, A.B.D. Spring 2007), topic: Women’s Discourse of Rights in the U.S., 1870s

 

William Mercer, University of Florida (History, A.B.D. Spring 2007), topic: Revisiting Barron v. Baltimore

 

Joel Black, University of Florida (History, A.B.D. Fall 2006), topic: Marginal Workers and the Law in Chicago, 1874-1920

 

Michael Schoeppner, University of Florida (History, M.A. Spring 2004, A.B.D. Fall 2005), topic: The Negro Seaman Acts (1822-1865): Race and Citizenship in the Atlantic World

 

Matthew Bewig, University of Florida (History, A.B.D. Fall 2005), topic: Re-examining the Lochner Case

 

Ph.D. Committee Member:

 

Marija Bekafigo, University of Florida (Political Science), Ph.D. 2009

 

John Catron, University of Florida, (History), Ph.D. 2008

 

Jordan Ragusa, University of Florida (Political Science) Prospectus Defense expected Fall 2008

 

A. Scott Catey, University of Florida (Anthropology), A.B.D. 2008 to present

 

W. James Flook, University of Florida (History), A.B.D. 2008 to present

 

Kathryn L. Oatest, University of Florida (Political Science), A.B.D. 2007 to present

 

 

Eunhye Kwon, University of Florida (History), A.B.D. 2006 to present

 

Thomas Berson, University of Florida (History), A.B.D. 2005 to present

 

 

Lynne Poulliam, University of Florida, (English) A.B.D. 2002 to present

 

M.A. (Thesis) Committee Chair:

 

Karen Malloy, “A History of the Southern Loyalists’ Convention,” University of Florida, M.A. May 2006 (U.S. History)

 

Jason Acosta, “Pirates in the Atlantic World.” University of Florida, M.A. December 2005 (U.S. History)

 

Marcus Gore, “Hugo Black and the Incorporation of the Bill of Rights,” Clemson University, M.A. August 1999 (U.S. History)

 

Kirk Gregory Bast, “Amidst their Fearful Career of Blood and Slaughter: The Ellenton Case, 1876-1877,” Clemson University, M.A. August 1998 (U.S. History)

 

M.A. (Non-thesis) Committee Chair:

 

Tashiba Robinson, University of Florida, J.D./M.A. May 2008 (Legal History)

 

Kristin Corkhill, University of Florida, M.A. December 2007 (Legal History)

 

William Mercer, University of Florida, M.A. May 2007 (Legal History)

 

Mindy Aguirre, University of Florida, M.A. May 2005 (Legal History)

 

Margaret Atkins, University of Florida, J.D./M.A. May 2005 (co-chair Matthew Gallman) (Legal History)

 

Michael Schoeppner, University of Florida, M.A. May 2005 (U.S. History)

 

M.A. (Thesis) Committee Member:

 

Amy Levitt, “Patenting Life: The Influence of Patent Law on Biotechnology,” University of Florida, M.A. August 2001 (History of Science)

 

Anthony Brooke Taylor, III, McLoud Plantation, Charleston, S C. Architecture Project, Clemson University, M.Arch. August 1999

 

Valerie Emanoil, “London Widows’ Activities in the Late Medieval Land Market,” Clemson University, M.A. May 1999 (European History)

 

Rosemary Nelson, “The Development of Birthright Citizenship in the United States,” Clemson University, M.A. December 1998 (U.S. History)

 

Michelle Pope, “Denial, Delay and Disability: The Southern Textile Industry and Brown Lung Disease,” Clemson University, M.A. December 1998 (U.S. History)

 

Jeff Bowman, “The Chicago Boycott: A Case in the Development of Conservative Control over the Political Economy,” Clemson University, M.A. August 1998 (U.S. History)

 

Tyler R. Ballard, “The Berrigans and Radical Religion in the Vietnam Era,” Clemson University, M.A. August 1998 (U.S. History)

 

Stephen Bartlett, “Pope Julius II: Master of Propaganda,” Clemson University, M.A. August 1997 (European History)

 

Edd D. Harrison, Jr., “Hanging on to Sentiment: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in South Carolina, 1869-1920,” Clemson University, M.A. May 1997 (U.S. History)

 

M.A. (Non-thesis) Committee Member:

 

Michael Harrington, University of Florida, M.A. December 2005 (U.S. History)

 

Chris Sahl, University of Florida, M.A. August 2005 (U.S. History)

 

Bryan McFarland, University of Florida, M.A. December 2003 (U.S. History)

 

Andrew Anderson, University of Florida, M.A. December 2003 (U.S. History)

 

Paul Wagner, University of Florida, M.A. December 2003 (History of Science)

 

Jenny Devine, University of Florida, J.D./M.A. December 2002 (U.S. History)

 

Honors Thesis (B.A.) Director:

 

Stephen Payne, Study of the Takings Clause, University of Florida, awarded highest honors December 2006

 

Elliot Gore, “The Patriot Act Viewed in Light of the History of the Fourth Amendment,” University of Florida, B.A. with high honors May 2004

 

Chris Jensen, “Study of a Lynching in Late Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” University of Florida, B.A. with highest honors May 2004

 

Athena Thanos, “The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes: A Competing Dialogue Based on Personal Impetus,” University of Florida, B.A. with high honors May 2002 (co-directed with V. Smocovitis)

 

Miranda Gatlin, “People vs. Cannon, et al. Study of an antebellum murder trial from South Carolina,” Clemson University, May 2000

 

Joshua Bryant, “Maintaining the Class: The Law of Slavery in Antebellum South Carolina and the Judge’s Role,” Clemson University, May 1998

 

Alison Albanese, “History of Divorce in South Carolina,” Clemson University, May 1997

 

 

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

University-wide:

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999

 

Chair, Faculty Senate Select Committee on Senate Structure and Effectiveness, University of Florida, 2003

 

Chair, Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Promotion and Tenure Guidelines, Clemson University, 1998

 

Chair, Faculty Senate Select Committee on the Library, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

Chair, University Committee Appointed to Revise the Undergraduate Law Minor, Clemson University, 1999

 

Faculty consultant, Student Government Committee to Revise the Academic Dishonesty Policy, Clemson University, 1999

 

Faculty panelist, Fulbright Interviews, University of Florida Honors College, Fall 2008

 

History Department Representative, University Library Committee, Clemson University, 1999-2000

 

Member, Constitution Committee, University of Florida, 2005-2006, 2004-2005, 2003-2004

 

Member, Faculty Senate Advisory Committee, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999

 

Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Scholastic Policy, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999

 

Member, Faculty Senate Select Committee on the Revisions to the University Mission Statement, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

Member, Faculty Senate Steering Committee, University of Florida, 2003

 

Member, Faculty Senate, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, 1997-1998 (representing College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities)

 

Member, Faculty Senate, University of Florida, 2002-2003 (representing the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

 

Member, Grievance I Hearing Board, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999

 

Member, Library Fundraising Initiative Committee, Clemson University, 1999

 

Member, President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Clemson University, 1999

 

Member, Search Committee, Assistant for Faculty Development, Associate Provost’s Office, 2006

 

Member, United Faculty of Florida Task force on Academic Freedom and Diversity, University of Florida, 2001

 

Member, University Committee on the Library, Clemson University, 1997-1998

 

Member, University-wide Non-Student Regulations Task Force, Clemson University, 1998

 

Advisor, PREVIEW Program for Entering Freshman, University of Florida, Summer 2002

 

 

College-wide:

 

Chair, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Finance Committee, University of Florida, Spring 2008

 

Chair, Common Ground Lecture Series, College of Arts, Architecture and Humanities, Clemson University, 1997-1998, 1996-1997

 

Member, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Finance Committee, University of Florida, Fall 2006 to Spring 2008

Member, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities Enhancement Fund Award Committee, University of Florida, Fall 2002, Fall 2001

 

Member, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities Press Task Force, Clemson University, 1999

 

Member, Women’s Studies Coordinating Committee, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997

 

Member, Women’s Studies Essay Contest Selection Committee, Clemson University, Spring 1999

 

Department-level:

 

Associate Chair, University of Florida, Fall 2004, 2003-2004, 2002-2003

 

Interim Associate Chair, Spring 2007

 

Chair, ad hoc committee to review department rules and policies, University of Florida, 2002-2003

 

Chair, American History Section ad hoc committee on graduate program, University of Florida, 2001

 

Chair, American History Section Pre-qualifying Exam Committee, University of Florida, Fall 2004

 

Chair, American History Section Qualifying Exam Committee, University of Florida, Fall 2003

 

Chair, Japanese History Search Committee, University of Florida, 2005-2006

 

Chair, Search Committee, Spring 2008

 

Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, University of Florida, Fall 2004

 

Chair, Vance Committee, Graduate Student Essay Prize, University of Florida, 2002

 

Editor, Department Newsletter, University of Florida, 2000-2001

 

Ex officio member, Graduate Committee, University of Florida, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, 2003-2004, 2002-2003

 

Legal History Coordinator, University of Florida, 2005 to the present

 

Member, adjunct committee, 2008-2009

 

Member, Chair Search Committee, Clemson University, 1995-1996

 

Member, Chair Search Committee, University of Florida, Fall 2005

 

Member, Executive Committee, University of Florida,  Spring 2007, Fall 2004, 2003-2004, 2002-2003

 

Member, Policy and Personnel Committee, University of Florida, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, 2003-2004, 2002-2003

 

Member, Search Committee, New South position, Clemson University, 1999-2000

 

Member, University of Florida, Department of History ad hoc committee on Afro-American Studies Search, 2006

 

Member, Vance Committee, Graduate Student Essay Prize, University of Florida, 2001

 

Member, Whisnant Women’s History Lecture Committee, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997

 

Mentor for Graduate Teaching Associates, University of Florida, 2005-2006, 2000-2001

 

Mentor for untenured faculty, University of Florida, 2005-2006, 2003-2004

 

Placement Coordinator, Graduate Program, University of Florida, 2007-2008

 

Advisor (pre-law) for undergraduate history majors, Clemson University, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997, 1995-1996

 

Advisor for undergraduate history majors, University of Florida, 2008-2009,

2001-2002, 2000-2001

 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

 

Brief Judge, American Constitutional Society Moot Court, Spring 2007

 

Member, Willard Hurst Book Prize Committee, Law and Society Association, 2006-2007

 

Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Law and Public Policy (University of Florida), 2005-2006, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003

 

Member, Editorial Board, Law and History Review, 2005-2010, 2001-2005

 

Manuscript Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2007; University of North Carolina Press, 2006; University Press of Florida, 2006; Longman, 2006; Rowan and Littlefield, 2006; Cambridge University Press, 2005; University of  North Carolina Press, 2003; Routledge Press, 2002

 

Article Referee, Law and Society Review, 2008, 2006; American Historical Review, 2004; Journal of American History2008, 2003; Criminal Justice Review, 2003; The Historian, 2003; Law and History Review 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1999

 

Member, Law & Society Association Article Prize Committee, 1998-1999

 

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, FOCUS on Law Studies (sponsored by the Commission on College and University Legal Studies of the American Bar Association), 1996-1998

 

 

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

 

Signer, Historians’ Amicus Brief, filed in CBOCS West, Inc v. Humphries, 06-1431 (filled with the Supreme Court of the United States in January 2008) 

 

Member, Negotiating Team, United Faculty of Florida, FEA/AFT/NEA, 2002 to 2008

 

Vice President, United Faculty of Florida. FEA/AFT/NEA, Fall 2004

 

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLISHED CASES

 

Adrow v. Johnson, 623 F. Supp. 1085 (N.D. Ill. 1985)

 

Bey v. Chicago, 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11107 (N.D. Ill. 1987)

 

Chambers v. Chicago, 1989 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8983 (N.D. Ill. 1989)

 

Doe v. Calumet City, 754 F. Supp. 1211 (N.D. Ill. 1990)

 

Evans v. Evanston, 881 F.2d 382 (7th Cir. 1989),  rehearing denied, 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 13138 (7th Cir. 1989)

 

Gunia v. Cook County Sheriff’s Merit Bd., 211 Ill. App. 3d 761; 570 N.E.2d 653 (Ill. App. 1st Dist. 1991)

 

Kennedy v. Hardiman, 684 F. Supp. 540 (N.D. Ill. 1988)

 

Lin Hsi Hsu v. Human Rights Commission, 180 Ill. App. 3d 949; 536 N.E.2d 732 (Ill. App., 1st Dist. 1989)

 

People v. Jones, 180 Ill. App. 3d 37; 535 N.E.2d 1103 (Ill. App. 2d Dist. 1989)

 

Robinson v. Human Rights Commission, 201 Ill. App. 3d 722; 559 N.E.2d 229 (Ill. App. 1st Dist. 1990)

 

Scimeca v. Lincolnwood, 1989 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10840 (N.D. Ill. 1989)

 

Siddiqi v. Leak, 880 F.2d 904  (7th Cir. 1989)

 

Smith v. Chicago, 913 F.2d 469 (7th Cir., 1990)

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

 

Negotiation Certificate, Windsor University Law School (Canada), 2006

 

Negotiation training, two-day seminar, United Faculty of Florida, AFT/NEA, Fall 2002

 

Grievance training, one-day seminar, United Faculty of Florida, AFT/NEA, Fall 2006