Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California, Mary L. Dudziak is interested in the impact of international affairs on U.S. civil rights, international approaches to American legal history, twentieth-century constitutional history, and contemporary constitutional law. Her publications include Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey (2008); Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000) and an edited collection, September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (2003). She is also coeditor of Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (2006). Her new book project is a revisionist account of law and war in the twentieth century.

Lecture topics:

• Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
• Civil Rights and the Cold War
• Law and War in the Twentieth Century
• Law, War, and the History of Time

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