Joseph Spillane
Office: 214 Walker Hall & 025 Keene-Flint
Phone: (352) 273-3355
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: spillane@crim.ufl.edu
Website: www.clas.ufl.edu/~spillane/index.shtml
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Associate Professor Joseph F. Spillane received his Ph.D. in 1994 in History
from Carnegie Mellon University, his M.A. in 1989 from Carnegie Mellon University
and his B.A. in 1988 from Gettysburg College. He joined University of Florida
Department of History in 1995 after teaching at Indiana University-Bloomington.
He has published Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the
United States (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and co-edited Federal
Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice (Haworth Press, 2004)
and Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of
Corrections (Ohio State University Press, 2005). Recent articles include
"Keeping the Lid On: A Century of Drug Regulation and Control" in
Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Recent courses include: Law and Society;
History of Modern US Social Policy (graduate); History of Corrections; Drugs,
Crime and Policy (graduate); and Modern America (graduate).
Dr. Spillane is currently working on a study of liberal prison reform in twentieth-century New York State. Other ongoing research interests include the development of drug addiction research, and police practice relative to illicit markets. Dr. Spillane is also a member of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of Florida.
