Rebecca McLennan

Associate Professor

Contact

Office: 2224 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm
Phone: (510) 642-1436
Email: mclennan@berkeley.edu

Education

B.A. (Hons), University of Otago, New Zealand, 1989
M.A., Columbia University, 1991
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1999

Selected Publications

The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (The Cambridge History of American Law series, Cambridge University Press, March 2008)

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"Imprisonment's 'Square Deal': Prisoners and their Keepers in the 1920s New York," Journal of Urban History 28: 5 (Jul. 2003)

"The New Penal State: Globalization, History, and American Criminal Justice, c. 2000," Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Fall, 2001)

Courses

History 100.003: Crime and Punishment in American History, 1776 - present (Fall 2007)

History 101.004: Crime and Punishment in American History (Fall 2005)

History 101: Law, Morality, and the Market: U.S. Legal History, 1607-present (Spring 2008)

History 103: America’s “Dark Flower”: The Prison in American Politics, Law, and Society, 1945-present (Spring 2005)

History 103.004: Land of Desire: Selected Topics in US Cultural History

History 275: Graduate Seminar in post-Civil War U.S. Historiography (Spring 2005)

History 275D: Post-Civil War US Historiography (Spring 2008)

History 285D: American Modernity Revisited