Richard Hamm Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia M.A., Ohio State University B.A., Florida Atlantic University 145C Social Sciences Department of History University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 Phone: (518) 442-5305 Fax: (518) 442-5301 hamm@ albany.edu

Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: His 100: American Social and Political History until 1865 His 101: American Social and Political History from 1865 His 292: Trials in United States History His 327: Roles of Law in American History His 328: Lawyers in American Life Graduate Courses: His 603/630: Readings in American and Public Policy History His 609/631: Seminar in American and Public Policy History Select Publications: Murder, Honor, and Law: Four Virginia Homicides between Reconstruction and the Great Depression (University of Vrginia Press for the American South Series, 2003) Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture and the Polity, 1880-1920 (North Carolina Press for the Studies in Legal History Series, 1995) Winner of Henry Adams Prize for 1996 Awards/Honors: President's and Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University at Albany, 1997-1998. Selected Speaker at Torch Night by Class of 1996, University at Albany. Current Research Interests: My research interests are focused on the interaction of law and society in the American past. How ideas, individuals, and structures have combined to shape law and how law has determined the courses of government officials, reformers, and ordinary people have been the primary foci of my work. I am currently working on two rather large projects. The first is an exploration of the National Woman's Party efforts through constitutional litigation to make jury service for women a federal right. And the second is an exploration of Arthur Garfield Hays's contribution to the history of American civil liberties. My teaching interests are broader, mostly public policy at the graduate level and legal history and society at the undergraduate level. Full Curriculum Vitae