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SHCY 2003 Conference
Dinner Keynote Speaker: "Saving Minds and Bodies: |
| June 27,
2003 5:30 - 9:00 pm 7th Floor, Albin O. Kuhn Library University of Maryland Baltimore County
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SHCY 2003 Conference
Dinner Keynote Speaker: "Saving Minds and Bodies: |
| June 27,
2003 5:30 - 9:00 pm 7th Floor, Albin O. Kuhn Library University of Maryland Baltimore County
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| Michael Grossberg is Professor of History & Law at Indiana University and Editor of the American Historical Review. His research focuses on the relationship between law and social change, particularly the intersection of law and the family. He has written a number of books and articles on legal and social history. His 1985 book, Governing the Hearth, Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America, won the Littleton-Griswold Prize in the History of Law and Society in America given by the American Historical Association. And in 1995 he published A Judgment for Solomon: The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America. He is currently working on a history of child protection in the United States and co-editing The Cambridge History of Law in the United States. He has been involved in a number of public history research projects, including a current one designed to devise guidelines for DNA testing in child custody cases. Grossberg has held fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Newberry Library, the American Bar Foundation, and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He teaches courses in American legal and social history. Grossberg has also published several articles on scholarly editing and is a founder of the History Cooperative, an electronic publishing project devoted to historical scholarship. | |
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