Julilly Kohler-Hausmann 
Assistant Professor
Office: 306 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-2311
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: jkh224@cornell.edu
Office Hours: Thursday: 4:00-5:00; by appointment
Research
I specialize in United States political and social history after World War II. My research explores the ways that politics and public policy intersect with gender, race and class inequality. I am particularly interested in how social movements, electoral politics and the administration of government services have helped shape notions of state responsibility for social problems.
My current book project chronicles efforts during the 1970s to enact “tough” welfare, drug, and anti-crime laws. It argues that the embrace of a punitive logic in social and criminal policy helped trigger welfare-state retrenchment and mass-incarceration, and fundamentally restructured conceptions of citizenship and state legitimacy.
Courses
| Fall 2012: | HIST 1640 |
U.S. History since the Great Depression |
|---|---|---|
HIST 4202 |
The Politics of Inequality: The History of the U.S. Welfare State | |
| Spring 2013: | HIST 2423 |
Dazed and confused: US Drug & Alcohol Politics |
HIST 2680 |
The United States in the 1960s and 1970s |
Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2010
B.A. Bard College, 1997
Recent Publications and Awards
Articles
“Militarizing the Police: Officer Jon Burge’s Torture and Repression in the ‘Urban Jungle’,” in Stephen Hartnett, ed., Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, December 2010).
“‘The Attila the Hun Law’: New York’s Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Making of a Punitive State,” Journal of Social History (September 2010): 71-96.
“‘The Crime of Survival’: Fraud Prosecutions, Community Surveillance, and the Original ‘Welfare Queen,’” Journal of Social History (Winter 2007): 329-354.
Awards/Fellowships
Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellowship, 2011-2013 (declined)Joseph Ward Swain Publication Prize, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Heyman Center for the Humanities, 2010-2011
Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellowship, 2010-2011
American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, 2009-2010
Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007-2008
Nicholson-IPRH Fellowship, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 2007-2008
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2007
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for a Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2007
King V. Hostick Award from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and the Illinois State Historical Society, 2006-2007
Larry R. Hackman Research Residency at the New York State Archives, 2007