Mary L. Dudziak

Title: 
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law
Affiliation: 
Emory University School of Law
E-Mail: 
mary.dudziak@emory.edu
Webpage: 
http://law.emory.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/faculty-profiles/dudziak-profile.ht…
Areas of Expertise: 
Individual rights and the U.S. global image, Cultural ideas about war and wartime, Presidential war power, History of declaring war
Short Bio: 

Mary L. Dudziak is a leading American legal historian and past-president of SHAFR. She writes and teaches about the history of war’s impact on American law and politics, civil rights history and constitutional law. Her books include War·Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (2012); Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey (2008); Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000, 2nd ed. 2011); and two edited collections. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times and elsewhere. Her research has been supported by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; American Council of Learned Societies and others.