USC Law Professor Mary L. Dudziak has won two prestigious fellowships. The awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study will support her book project, How War Made America: A Twentieth Century History.
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War is often perceived as an interruption to normal life, but for most of the 20th Century, conflict was the norm rather than the exception, Dudziak says.
“War and preparations for war persistently shaped the nature of American democracy, the powers of government, the rights of citizens, and the nation’s place in the world,” she says. “Law is often thought of as a source of limits to government war power, but in twentieth century America, law helped entrench war-related state-building.”
The Guggenheim Fellowship was announced last week. At the Institute for Advanced Study, Dudziak will be part of the Institute’s School of Social Science focus for the year on The Rule of Law Under Pressure.
Dudziak is one of 189 scholars and artists — and the only law professor — to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship out of a field of 2,800 applicants. The awards are given to those with a demonstrated, exceptional capacity for productive scholarship, according to the foundation’s web site.
Dudziak has been on the USC Law faculty since 1998, specializing in 20th Century American legal history. She is currently on leave as the only law professor to receive a fellowship last year from the American Council of Learned Studies, for her project, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey. Dudziak's final research trip for the project, to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, will be funded by a Moody Grant from the LBJ Library Foundation.
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