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Julie Novkov

Julie Novkov is an American political scientist, currently a professor of political science and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She studies the history of American law, American political development, and subordinated identities, with a focus on how laws are used for social control while also being affected by social reform movements.

Julie Novkov
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Awards
  • Collins Fellowship
  • 2009 Ralph Bunche Award
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
Institutions

Early career and education

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Novkov attended Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, earning an AB in 1989.[1] After graduating, she attended the New York University School of Law, obtaining a JD in 1992.[1] Novkov then became a graduate student in political science at the University of Michigan, receiving an MA in 1994 and a PhD in 1998.[1] Her PhD dissertation was entitled Sex and Substantive Due Process: The Gendered Nature of Constitutional Development.[2] In 1996, Novkov became a professor in the department of political science at the University of Oregon.[1]

Career

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Novkov remained at the University of Oregon for 10 years, from 1996 to 2006. In 2006, she moved to the University at Albany, SUNY.[1] From 2011 to 2017 she was the chair of the political science department at SUNY Albany.[1][3] Since 2018 she has been the director of undergraduate studies in that department, and from 2008 to 2011 she was the director of graduate studies.[1] She became a Collins Fellow at SUNY Albany in 2017.[1]

Novkov's first book, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years, was published in 2001. Novkov argues that gender is a crucial analytical category in the modern legal system, and specifically that "much of the doctrinal framework for the modern interventionist state arose through battles over female workers' proper relationships with the state."[4] To establish the gendered origins of modern employment laws, Novkov draws on hundreds of cases that concerned labor issues between 1873 and 1937, from both the state and federal level.[4]

In 2008, Novkov published her second book, Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865–1954. This book studies the history and use of bans on interracial marriage in Alabama, which retained language against interracial marriages until 2000.[5] Novkov separates the legal history of Alamaba's anti-miscegenation law into several periods within the span 1865–1954, and uses the legal trends within each period to argue that the anti-miscegenation law was being used as a tool of state-building.[5] This places anti-miscegenation laws at the center of developing and securing a regime of white supremacy in the state.[5] Racial Union won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Ralph Bunche Award, which is given "for the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism."[6]

Novkov also wrote a text that introduces and explores the relationship between the American Supreme Court and its president, called The Supreme Court and the Presidency: Struggles for Supremacy and published in 2013.[7] In addition to publishing in political science journals, she has also published extensively in law reviews,[8] and has served as an editor for several books.[9]

Novkov is a member of the 2020–2024 editorial leadership of the American Political Science Review,[10][11] which is the most selective political science journal.[12] She has previously served on the editorial board of five other journals.[9]

Novkov's work has been cited in media reports on topics like interracial marriage laws,[13] bias in academia,[14][15] and political divisions in America.[16][17] Novkov is a regular contributor to the American politics website A House Divided.[18]

Selected works

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  • Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years, 2001
  • Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865–1954, 2008
  • The Supreme Court and the Presidency: Struggles for Supremacy, 2013

Selected awards

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  • 2009 Ralph Bunche Award, American Political Science Association[6]
  • 2015 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University at Albany, SUNY[1]
  • Collins Fellowship, University at Albany, SUNY[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Julie Novkov Profile". University at Albany, SUNY. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. ^ Novkov, Julie. Sex and substantive due process : the gendered nature of constitutional development, 1873–1937. WorldCat. OCLC 44409796. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Julie Novkov Profile". University at Albany, SUNY. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b R. Y. Storrs, Landon (2003). "Review of Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years". Law and History Review. 21 (3): 640–642. doi:10.2307/3595133. JSTOR 3595133.
  5. ^ a b c Sullivan, Kathleen (June 2009). "Review of Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865–1954". Law & Society Review. 43 (2): 445–447. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2009.00378_4.x.
  6. ^ a b Bishop, Kris (31 August 2009). ""Racial Union" Wins American Political Science Association Award". University of Michigan Press. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  7. ^ "The Supreme Court and the presidency: struggles for supremacy". Reference and Research Book News. 28 (3). June 2013.
  8. ^ "Constitutional Development Series: Mark Graber, Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov". Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Meet 2020 APSR Editor, Julie Novkov of University of Albany, SUNY". Political Science Now. American Political Science Association. 28 August 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  10. ^ "APSA Announces the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review". American Political Science Association. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  11. ^ Marshall, Jenna (26 July 2019). "Righting the balance: New APSR editors meet at SFI to discuss gender and race in scientific publishing". Santa Fe Institute. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Cutting-Edge Research Agenda". University of Tennessee Knoxville. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  13. ^ Kirby, Brendan (2018). "Interracial cohabitation ban turns 135, settled by little known Alabama case". Yellowhammer News.
  14. ^ Reid, Rebecca A.; Curry, Todd A. (12 April 2019). "The White Man Template and Academic Bias". Inside Higher Education. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  15. ^ Mervis, Jeffrey (23 February 2017). "Study thyself: Political scientists assess extent of sexual harassment at their annual meeting". Science Magazine. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  16. ^ Airaksinen, Toni (8 August 2018). "Prof predicts Trump voters will riot when Trump leaves office". Campus Reform. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  17. ^ Morton, Victor (9 August 2018). "Trump supporters will spark civil war to keep president in power, professor says". The Washington Times. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  18. ^ "A House Divided contributors". 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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