Research Page for Julie Novkov
Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies
University at Albany, SUNY

Books and Volumes

This was my first solo book, published in 2001. It reads gender into the history of the struggle over protective labor legislation during the Lochner Era.	Co-Recipient of the 2009 APSA Ralph Bunche Award This book argues that prosecutions and appeals of convictions for the crime of miscegenation played a pivotal role in shaping and reflecting the development of white supremacy in Alabama between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Era.	This co-edited volume (Lowndes, Novkov, and Warren) considers the intersection of research on race and ethnic politics in the United States and theories concerning political development. Top established and emerging scholars address legal, institutional, historical and cultural perspectives. The volume explores how studies of race can enrich understandings of political development in the United States and vice versa.	This co-edited volume (Sutton, Morgen, and Novkov) explores the gendered and racialized dimensions of militarized conceptions of security in a context of global economic and political restructuring. The contributions in the volume advance paradigms of security that emphasize peacemaking, human rights, social and economic justice, and gender and racial equity.

Reviews of my books and contributions to books

• Review of Racial Union in the Law and Politics Book Review.
  
  
• Review of Racial Union on Balkinization.
  
  
• Review of Constituting Workers, Protecting Women in the Law and Politics Book Review.
  
  
• Review of The Supreme Court and American Political Development in the Law and Politics Book Review.
  
  
• Review of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics in the Law and Politics Book Review.

Shorter published works

• "Racial Constructions: The Legal Regulation of Miscegenation in Alabama, 1890-1934", published in the Law and History Review in 2002.
  
  
• The University Press of Kansas published in 2006 The Supreme Court and American Political Development, a volume edited by Ron Kahn and Ken Kersch, which includes a chapter on my research on the post-bellum struggles over the constitutionality of anti-miscegenation laws.
  
  

Child Labor

• Historicizing the Figure of the Child in Legal Discourse: The Battle over the Regulation of Child Labor. (Link to JSTOR.) This piece was in American Journal of Legal History 44: 369-404 (2000). It's interesting, if somewhat heavy on description and light on theory.
  
  
• Our Towering Superstructure Rests on a Rotten Foundation: Hammer v. Dagenhart. This is a chapter in Creating Constitutional Change, an anthology edited by Kevin McGuire and Gregg Ivers on significant Supreme Court cases. The anthology is a terrific resource for studying constitutional law and civil rights.
  
  
• Not an article, but a terrific photograph of some child laborers. The photograph was taken in the early twentieth century by activist and researcher Lewis Hine. Several more can be found here, at The History Place.

Other Projects

• Many of my works in progress are now housed on my BEPress page. In particular, I have put up some early versions of chapters in my current book project, which is tentatively entitled Sacrifice and Civic Membership: Gender, Race, and Sexuality and the Acquisition of Rights in Troubled Times.
  
  
• Scroll down for links to articles in a mini-symposium on race and political development recently published in the Political Research Quarterly for which I served as guest editor.
  
  
• Here is a bibliography of works on the purposes of constitutions.
  
  
• 9/11 and Constitutional Change: Resolving Cognitive Dissonance and Existential Crises in Judging and Teaching This paper addresses some of the dilemmas of judging and teaching about wartime legal issues through the lens of Robert Cover's work on slavery. It was presented as roundtable remarks at the Western Political Science Association and as a paper at the Consortium for Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs in 2007.
  
  

Book Reviews

• Review of Richard Iton, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Law and Politics Book Review 18: 1082-1086 (2008).Co-winner of the 2009 APSA Ralph Bunche Award -- a great book!
  
  
• Review of Mary Dudziak, Exporting American Dreams. Law and Politics Book Review 18: 863-66 (2008).
  
  
• Review of Michael Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David Oppenheimer, Marjorie Shultz, and David Wellman, Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9: 334-37 (2006).
  
  
• Review of Diana Sommerville, Rape and Race in the Nineteenth Century South. Alabama Review 58: 306-08 (2005).
  
  
• Review of Kevin Johnson, Mixed-Race America and the Law: A Reader. In Journal of American Ethnic History 23: 143-44 (2003).
  
  
• Review of Paul Weizer, Sexual Harassment: Cases, Case Studies, and Commentary. In Perspectives on Political Science 32: 108 (2003).
  
  
• Review of Richard Brisbin, A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990. In the Law and Politics Book Review.
  
  
• Review of Howard Ball, The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death. In Political Science Quarterly 18: (2003).
  
  
• Review of Between Law and Culture by David Theo Goldberg, Michael Musheno, and Lisa C. Bower (Editors). In the Law and Politics Book Review.
  
  
• Review of Elizabeth Schneider, Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking. In American Journal of Legal History 44: 511-12 (2000).
  
  
• Review of Molly Shanley, Making Babies, Making Families. American Political Science Review 96: 622-23, 2002.