We are delighted to welcome a new guest blogger for the month of December. Joanna Grisinger is Associate Professor of Instruction at the Center for Legal Studies at Northwestern University, where she teaches a variety of undergraduate courses including Legal and Constitutional History of the United States, Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, Law and Society, and Law & the Civil Rights Movement.
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Professor Grisinger received
her J.D. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. Her research
focuses on the modern administrative state in twentieth-century U.S. legal and
political history. Her first book, The
Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics Since the New Deal (Cambridge University Press, 2012), offers a
political history of administrative law reform. Her current research examines
the relationship between administrative agencies and the civil rights movement
and explores public interest participation in administrative decision making;
she is currently completing two articles in which anti-apartheid activists
sought reform through administrative agencies.
Professor Grisinger is a co-founder and co-organizer (with
Kimberly Welch, Kathryn Schumaker, and Logan Sawyer) of the Law & History Collaborative
Research Network (established 2013) within the Law and Society Association. She also co-edits (with Deborah Dinner) the Legal History section
of Jotwell.com,
and is the advisory editor on Law and Criminality for the American National Biography.
She is currently a member of the ASLH Board of Directors and is chair of the American Society for Legal History’s
Standing Committee on the Annual Meeting. (If you want to help bring the ASLH
annual meeting to your city, let her know!)
