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Elizabeth Dale

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Email: edale
Office: 025 Keene-Flint Hall

Professor Dale in 2022 published an open-access book with the LibraryPress@UF: Fight for Rights: The Chicago 1919 Riots and the Struggle for Black Justice.

She has published four other books on criminal law and history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971 (2016), which looks at the lost history of police torture in Chicago before the Jon Burge era; Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939 (Cambridge, 2011); The Chicago Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century (NIU, 2011); The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago Versus Zephyr Davis (Ohio State, 2001). And her first book, Debating- and Creating-Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649, was reprinted by Routledge (Routledge, 2017; Ashgate, 2001).

In 2022-2023, Professor Dale was on an NEH Fellowship to work on another book that looks at how the twentieth century criminal justice system dealt with mentally disabled suspects.

Dr. Dale is past-editor of Law and History Review (2013-2017) and has published articles in a number of journals, including the American Historical Review and Law and History Review. Dr. Dale teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Digital History, American Legal and Constitutional History, Comparative Constitutional History. In 2010-2011, Dr. Dale was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago Department of History; in Spring 2005, she served as a Fulbright lecturer/researcher at Shandong University Law School, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China. She was a Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor in 2012; and a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, 2013-2015.

Dr. Dale was a founding member of the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate Committee and a member of a UF Mellon Intersections Working Group on Mass Incarceration.