Daniel LaChance
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Emory U. Professor | I write about Crime and Punishment in American Culture | Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022) 🏳️🌈
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A nice mention in today's NYT of my work on why we offer the condemned the chance to order a customized last meal.
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I was an altar boy at a church in the Archdiocese of Boston when this happened in 1992. I vividly remember the priest’s homily that Sunday: a rant about O’Connor’s betrayal and anti-Catholicism.
Last year, that priest was indicted for sexually assaulting an altar boy.
Sinéad O’Connor protests sexual abuse of minors in the church, ripping up a photo of The Pope Live on SNL — earning a lifetime ban from the show.
The following decades would reveal just how pervasive the abuse was. Rest in power.
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Today in the undergraduate research seminar, we discuss citations.
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Dancing in the streets in Midtown, Atlanta! An incredible day for Georgia.
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I see her so differently now than I did then. And I’m grateful for her act of protest.
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This is shameful. I am ashamed of
@EmoryUniversity
, led by
@gregfenves
, for arresting peaceful protestors, including my colleague Noelle McAfee.
WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.
I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.
This video provided to us by an
#Emory
PHD student. You can hear him in this video.
@ATLNewsFirst
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The faculty of Emory College of Arts and Sciences,
@EmoryUniversity
's largest academic unit, has voted no confidence in President
@gregfenves
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Tenured! Feeling excited about my future at Emory, an institution that has been so good to me, and in Atlanta, a city I’ve come to love. And feeling lots of gratitude to colleagues and mentors, past and present.
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My department is hiring a scholar of pre-20th century Native American History! This is a named chair to be held at the rank of associate or full professor. Reviews of applications begin 1/4. More information here:
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Last office hours of the semester. Pushing 70 today in ATL.
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Thrilled to announce that we will be hiring up to THREE tenure track assistant professors in U.S. History at Emory! More details here:
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Letters of rec. from US Professors: "X is my student, and her dissertation is nothing short of astonishing. It upends everything we thought we knew and will be cited for decades to come."
Letters of rec. from UK professors: "X is my student, and I can confirm that she exists."
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I received a letter from my department chair today ascertaining that I am the apparent incoming Director of Undergraduate Studies. I will now have access to many more Zoom meetings and a box of course catalogues from the 90s.
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Emory students walked out of class today to protest Cop City
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To celebrate homecoming and kick off a capital campaign, my university is… um… building a lunar colony on the quad?
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Syllabusing on New Year’s Day. Excited about this new course I’ll be co-teaching in the spring with my colleague Jonathan Prude—Leisure Time: An American History.
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Congratulations to Emory University Ph.D. students, who overwhelmingly voted to unionize this month!
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Some nice news--excited to have next year to finish book
#3
and $$ to hire undergraduate researchers to help. Thanks to
@scoopgirl
for the great write up!
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Really wonderful weekend in Minneapolis celebrating the retirement of Elaine Tyler May, my Ph.D. advisor, whose brilliance and kindness are awe inspiring. Her advisees gave her a quilt with photos, including covers of books that began as dissertations under her supervision.
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Doing a happy dance because two friends got tenure today!
Emory tenured
@Prof_Suddler
and MIT tenured
@HoranCaley
!
Such well deserved recognition for two wonderful scholars and people.
🍾🍾🍾
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Book manuscript complete!
@pauljkaplan
and I sent off “Crimesploitation: Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure on Reality Television” last Friday for peer review!
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I’m so proud of
@EmoryHistory
undergraduate
@jason_goodman_
, who successfully defended his excellent honors thesis today. “Fear the ‘Kids in America’: How Youth Gang Films Constructed a Criminal Class, 1973-1994” is an impressive work of cultural history!
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Manuscript editing with the neediest cat in the world. Anyone else revise drafts on paper rather than on screen?
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Congrats to my friend and colleague
@drkyliesmith
on the launch of her new Center for Healthcare History and Policy (
@CHHAPEmory
) at Emory! She will be an amazing Founding Director of the Center.
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Our book has a cover that is as subtle as the opening credits of the media we study 😂 Coming Spring 2022!
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I love Emory students. On the first day of class, I ask my students to share something in their wallet/bag (PG-13 or tamer) as part of their self-introduction. Two of the 15 first year students in my freshman seminar on the First Amendment had pocket constitutions with them. :-)
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My review of Ashley Rubin's excellent "The Deviant Prison" was just published in "Punishment and Society." "Profoundly generative," the book is "a call for scholars of punishment to take seriously the inner lives of those who administer punishment."
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A big congrats to Jennifer Jurgens (
@jurgensjen
)! today, she successfully defended her dissertation prospectus and advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy in the Emory History Dept. There is lots of excitement for “The Carceral City: Urban Development and Policing in Houston, 1960-2000”!
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#ShareYourRejections
#HoldMyBeer
When I was applying for asst. prof. jobs, I got used to rejections or, worse, eternal silence. One department was special, though. Instead of a rejection letter, they sent me an invitation to apply for admission to their master's degree program.
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@eric_is_weird
@Harvard
And yet the Institute would embrace the humanities in the aftermath of World War II, recognizing the danger that scientific inquiry divorced from human values posed to the common good.
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The best part of chairing a cluster hire search committee? When your THREE new colleagues arrive on campus the following summer. Welcome to
@EmoryUniversity
,
@AfAmHist_FAU
,
@mariarmontalvo
, and Chris Suh!
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Last push: Emory's Department of History is hiring up to three tenure track assistant professors of race, ethnicity, and inequality this year. Deadline is this Saturday, September 15th!
Thrilled to announce that we will be hiring up to THREE tenure track assistant professors in U.S. History at Emory! More details here:
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Preparing the syllabus for my seminar on Crime and Punishment in American Culture. This go around, I'm teaching works by
@JFormanJr
,
@elizabhinton
, Elaine Tyler May,
@KerametR
,
@hthompsn
, and James Q. Whitman.
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An "I love my job" moment: I'm an outside reader on an undergraduate thesis about the 1987 film "Hellraiser," a film I've never seen. So I'm organizing a watch party this weekend with friends so that I can prepare for the defense.
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Looking forward to presenting a chapter from my current book project at
@UCLA_Law
’s legal history workshop today: “The Limits of Empathy: Death Penalty Abolitionism in the 1920s U.S.”
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"The Death Penalty in Black & White," my new article in Law & Social Inquiry, is now open access. In it, I identify a racial gap in newspaper coverage of executions in GA and LA between 1877-1936. Read & download here for free:
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A really thoughtful review of my book, Executing Freedom, appears in the current Journal of American History, right on top of an admiring review of
@KerametR
's terrific book on solitary confinement, 23/7.
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I recently gave a talk to Emory Emeritus faculty a few weeks ago about my research on far-right conservatives during the early years of the Cold War (1954-57) and their First Amendment-based opposition to mental health laws and policies. It's on YouTube:
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Voted! Fulton County folks: State Farm arena in downtown is the way to go. I was in and out in under 20 minutes. Everything was fast, efficient, well signed, well staffed. Free parking across the street. It felt like... democracy!
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It's here! My brilliant friend
@HoranCaley
's book "Insurance Era" arrived yesterday. As
@_jonlevy
's blurbs puts it, it "utterly recasts the history of the postwar United States as the origins of our own time." The Boston Review has posted an excerpt here:
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Weekly trip to Trader Joe’s felt like being in The Handmaid’s Tale. Everyone was wearing face masks, and in aisle three I overheard, “oh look, the supply truck brought us vanilla mochi this week.” I almost replied, “Blessed be. May the Lord open.”
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Syllabusing. My interdisciplinary graduate seminar on Punishment, Politics, & Culture (History, Sociology, and English) for the Fall will feature oldies and newbies, including my colleague
@Prof_Suddler
's recently released "Presumed Criminal."
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Back in the teaching saddle, finishing up the syllabus for American Legal and Constitutional History, which I last taught in 2017. This version of the course will feature work by Barbara Welke,
@dsharfstein
, and
@n_hold
. Excited!
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My review of Paul Renfro's excellent book "Stranger Danger" is now out in the current issue of Law & Society Review. He masterfully shows "how important a bipartisan family values agenda was in shaping the logos, pathos, and ethos of the punitive state."
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Not one, but TWO ACLS grants for
@EmoryHistory
Ph.D. students! Congrats,
@alexander_cors
and
@camigoldmon
!
Two
@EmoryHistory
PhD candidates win ACLS dissertation completion funding for 2021-2022. Congrats to
@alexander_cors
and Camille Goldman for such superlative work. An outstanding result for the department!!
@laneygradschool
@emorycollege
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Thrilled that my advisee
@spycjason
has won a
@JWJIEmory
undergraduate fellowship! The fellowship will support work on his honors thesis. He's studying representations of race in films about organized crime from the 1970s-present.
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Statement Denouncing Police Violence and White Supremacy by Emory University's Department of History: "Our shared history has produced an unequal, violent social system."
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Basically me on the first day of Intro to Legal Studies or American Legal History:
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My Dad just told me that he and my Mom are scheduled to get their first vaccine dose on Monday.... I didn’t anticipate how much relief I would feel at hearing that news.
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Just a few of Emory University’s Keepers of the Past at today’s honors and awards ceremony.
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Every dental office should have a new puppy to take the sting off of having to get a crown.
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Great to reconnect with co-author and friend
@pauljkaplan
and see our book Crimesploitation at the
@stanfordpress
book exhibit here at the Law & Society meetings in Denver
#lsa2024
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RIP Walter Mondale. I regret not voting for you in Kindergarten.
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My former
@EmoryUniversity
advisee and History alum
@SamforMarlboro
makes history by becoming the youngest woman ever elected to the Marlboro, Mass. city council. Go, Sam, go!
This is great news! Our
#Emory
history alum Samantha Perlman has won her election! Yay
@SamforMarlboro
She will be making history!
@emorycollege
@EmoryUniversity
@womnknowhistory
#twitterstorians
#Emoryuniversity
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I’m no interior designer, but I don’t think any academic’s living room decor is complete without a “friends’ first books” display.
Great stuff here from
@HoranCaley
,
@mzak123
,
@saramayeux
, and
@ToddMichney
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I wrote for the
@JournAmHist
's blog about why the late 20th century culture wars are relevant to Trump's love of the death penalty. "Support for the death penalty is not only a tool for controlling crime, but also an expression of allegiance to values"
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Today,
@pauljkaplan
and I signed a book contract with
@stanfordpress
's "cultural lives of the law series for our co-authored "Crimesploitation: Crime, Punishment, & Pleasure on Reality Television"!
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Syllabus writing for my seminar on the power and poetics of punishment in the US. Looking forward to teaching works by
@KerametR
,
@elizabhinton
,
@anne_e_parsons
, and
@jformanjr
in this go around!
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Teaching Foucault’s D & P tomorrow. Took this photo of my TA processing the idea that the soul is the prison of the body.
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Back in the teaching saddle.
It’s the first day of 38th grade!
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It's release day for Crimesploitation! From "copaganda" shows like COPS and DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER to true crime fare like MAKING A MURDERER, reality and "true crime" television shows teach us much about how mass incarceration and rising inequality has shaped American culture.
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Last class of the semester ✔️
That’s a wrap on Spring 2021 teaching.
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Spread the word! Emory's Dept. of African American Studies is conducting an open-rank search for a tenured/tenure track professor of twentieth century African American history! I'm on the search committee, and will be happy to field any questions via DM.
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The Emory History Dept celebrated two staff milestones today: 25 years of service from our senior accountant Allison and 30 years from our academic dept. administrator Becky. They are the best!
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Cleaned up for "picture day" in our department. If I had a physical copy of this, I'd scrawl "39th grade, 2023-4" on the back of it.
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1) Started dating a great fella and amassed a bowling W/L record of at least 25-2 against him
2) Chaired a search committee that brought three great new faculty to my dept, incl.
@Prof_Suddler
and
@mariarmontalvo
2) Put book
#2
, co-auth with
@pauljkaplan
, under contract
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I'm so very sad to hear of the passing of Georgetown Law Professor Anne Fleming, a wonderful person and scholar.
Anne Fleming was a brilliant scholar and a treasured colleague
@penn
, where we went to graduate school together. She was also an incredibly kind, generous, & decent human being. She aspired to do good in the world & she made those around her want to be better. (1/2)
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Gorgeous fall day in Atlanta. Taking short walks between writing sessions > doomscrolling and checking FiveThirtyEight incessantly.
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Proud Professor Moment: A first year student in my death penalty seminar took her thoughts from our recent discussions about the history of Americans' search for a humane execution method and wrote an op-ed for the
@emorywheel
.
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As a Bostonian, I'm still wicked mad that Kaldi's replaced Dunkin' at
@emorycollege
. But I'll be chatting with Emory students at Kaldi's via Zoom this Thursday from 7-8 p.m. Emory undergrads--PM if you'd like the Zoom link!
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MIT Historian Caley Horan's (
@HoranCaley
) forthcoming book on how actuarial thought shaped modern America is so smart and fascinating. Another book that began in the magical Elaine and Lary May diss. writing community at UMN!
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@dansaltzstein
Woman on 23rd & 6th to me, thrusting her phone at me: “Excuse me, sir? I was wondering if you could help me spell lobotomy. I'm trying to tell someone they should get a lobotomy. Is this how you spell it?”
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“I’m just going to take one more quick pass on this chapter before sending it off.”
Two days later:
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My Department is hiring a tenure-track or tenured position in East Asian history! Please share with those who might be on the job market in this area!
📢 We're hiring! 📢 The Emory History Department is seeking an Asst, Assoc, or Full Professor of East Asian history. All time periods considered. Preference for historians of Japan, Korea, or transnational. Come work with us! Details
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I met in person for the first time since December of 2019 with
@emorycollege
undergrads and--wow!--it was so energizing. I've so missed in-person teaching and advising.
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My 1st book, "Executing Freedom," is on the digital remainder table again--$2.99 at Amazon.
I wrote the book for a law and humanities audience, so it's especially great to see it assigned in a legal studies class by one of my favorite legal historians!
I'm teaching
@dwlachance
's book Executing Freedom again. I've taught it many times and it remains really rewarding to get students to think with, to think with them about, and to again go through the content of the book myself, really a great book, highly recommended!
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90% of my decision to buy a new, supersized dining room table was to be able to write and revise on a ridiculously big surface.
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One final pitch: Join
@EmoryHistory
and
@CandlerTheology
tomorrow for
@AaronLGriffith
's talk on his book "God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America." 2 p.m. ET. See flyer for Zoom link. Non Emory affiliates can DM me for the password.
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Fantastic news
Starting this fall, Emory will eliminate loans from need-based financial aid packages for domestic undergraduate students – to be replaced by scholarships and grants for these current and future students, supporting their dreams after graduation. This is huge for Emory students!
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That’s a wrap on the law, culture, and the humanities 2023 conference. Glad to be on the organizing/program committee with these great folks (and others not pictured) including
@ArsScripta
,
@ravitreichman
,
@NaomiMezey
,
@sblumenthal_
,
@PatricioBoyer
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Congratulations to my colleague and friend
@chrissuhhist
on the publication of “The Allure of Empire”!
Man, whoever chaired the search committee that hired this brilliant scholar deserves a gold star!
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Three of the reasons I have published 75 pictures of my cat on social media since 2014:
1) I have a really photogenic cat
2) He’s lazy and doesn’t move around too much— makes for good shots
3) I’ve embraced the hipster cat dad thing
Which of these three things do you lack?
Three of the reasons I have published 75 books, journal articles, and book chapters since 2005:
1) I sleep 8 hours a night.
2) I write for 1-2 hours every weekday.
3) I don’t get in my own way.
Which of these 3 strategies is the hardest for you?
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I’m which the cat has a meltdown 10 minutes into lecture...
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Congrats to my colleague
@AdriChira
on her new article in Law and History Review. In both the law school and the history department, legal history is thriving at
@EmoryUniversity
Soon to be uploaded to FirstView, a fantastic new article by Adriana Chira
@AdriChira
, "Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817-68"
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I’m so proud of
@EmoryHistory
undergraduate Sarah Gordon (
@sarahrgordon21
), who successfully defended her excellent honors thesis Friday. “Citizens United v. FEC and the Triumph of Modern Conservatism” is an impressive work of legal and political history!
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For humanities scholars, it's not every day that you pass a cart of urine filled cylinders on your way into the room where you're giving a talk. Had a great time at Yale Med School speaking about psychiatry and civil liberties in the early years of the Cold War with these two!
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My article on "Billy Budd" and the Electric Chair is out today!
Billy was hanged, but Melville wrote BB while New York elites were working to replace hanging with electrocution. I explore the ideals that drove the change, & their presence in Billy Budd.
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