![]() ![]() It is an intellectual history titled New Leviathan: Rethinking Sovereignty and Political Agency after Total War. My third book project is also nearing completion. This book examines the mass politics of extraterritorial sovereignty, and the crisis of legitimacy it engendered, from V-E Day to the Cuban Missile Crisis. I am currently completing a sequel to Warfare State tentatively titled Sovereign Discipline: The American Extraterritorial State in the Atomic Age. Its central concern is to examine the ways in which different groups of citizens encountered the burgeoning warfare state and in the process accepted, rejected, or otherwise contested the legitimacy of expanding federal authority in everyday life, thereby shaping the horizons of political possibility for decades. My first book, Warfare State, is a history of the social politics of the national state as its foundations shifted from welfare to warfare during World War II. ![]() I am an historian of modern US politics broadly construed, with special interests in the mutual constitution of social categories, democratic publics, and state formation. Modern US political history political economy war and society human rights America in the world history of social science Social Science Research Building, room 225B – Office Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the College Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, the College ![]() Associate Professor of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the Faculty, Masters in Computational Social Scienceįaculty Board Member, Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture ![]()
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