Associate Professor Elizabeth Dale received her Ph.D. in 1995 in U.S. Legal History from the University of Chicago, her J.D. (with honors) in 1984 from Chicago Kent College of Law, and her B.A. in Ancient Greek from DePauw University. She joined University of Florida Department of History in 2000 after teaching at Clemson University from 1995 to 2000.
Professor Dale has published two books: The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis (2001) and Debating— and Creating—Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 (2001), and articles in Law and History Review and the American Historical Review. She recently published an article--"Getting Away with Murder"-- in a forum in the American Historical Review (vol. 111, Feb 2006) and her chapter -- "A Government of Laws or Men? A History of Criminal Law in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1919)" -- will soon be published in volume two of the Cambridge History of American Law. She continues to work on her third monograph, tentatively entited The Price of Liberty? Extralegal Justice and Popular Sovereignty in America, 1833-1947. She also works on Comparative Constitutional History, 19th Century Criminal Law, and Citizenship in U.S. History.
Dr. Dale has recently taught graduate courses in American Legal and Constitutional History, Comparative Constitutional History, and Early American History, and undergraduate courses in the History of Women and Law and American Constitutional History. In spring 2005, Dr. Dale served as a Fulbright lecturer/researcher at Jinan University, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China. Recognition includes: Mahon Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2000- 01), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities Enhancement Fellowship (Summer 2001).
Dr. Dale serves as Coordinator for JD/MA/PhD program at UF and begun her second term on the editorial board for Law and History Review (2005-2010).
