Dr. Katherine Unterman

Biography

Katherine Unterman specializes in the history of American law with an emphasis on the late 19th and 20th centuries. She currently directs the History Department’s Legal History Certificate and heads the Law Society Working Group at the Glasscock Center. Additionally, she serves as the faculty advisor for the Texas A&M Undergraduate Journal of Law and Society. Unterman’s scholarship focuses on the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, particularly the role of law in American foreign relations. Her book, "Uncle Sam’s Policemen: The Pursuit of Fugitives Across Borders" (Harvard University Press), examines the evolution of extradition law in the late 19th century and explores the broader implications of America’s connection to the rest of the world and the threats abroad that laws were employed to counteract. She has published articles in numerous prestigious journals, including the Law and History Review, the Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Modern American History. Unterman is also contributing chapters to Wiley-Blackwell companions on U.S. Foreign Relations and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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