Faculty and Staff
Dana Rabin
Associate Professor of History
Associate professor Dana Rabin specializes in the history of eighteenth-century Britain with an emphasis on crime, law, gender, and race. Her first book, Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England, is a study of the language of mental states in the English courtroom. The book sets legal sources within a cultural context to reveal the relationships between emotion, responsibility, gender, and citizenship in the eighteenth century. Professor Rabin is the author of "Bodies of Evidence, States of Mind: Infanticide, Emotion, and Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century England" in Infanticide Historical Perspectives, 1550-2000, edited by Mark Jackson (Ashgate, 2002), "Drunkenness and Responsibility for Crime in the Eighteenth Century." Journal of British Studies 44 (2005): 457-477, and "The Jew Bill of 1753: Masculinity, Virility, and Nation," in Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006): 157-171. Her current project explores British anxieties about empire in the second half of the eighteenth century that coalesced in a series of "imperial disruptions" around perceived differences of race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, age, and sexuality.
Professor Rabin received her Ph.D from the University of Michigan in 1996. She teaches courses on early modern and modern Britain, the history of crime, early modern Jewish history, and world history.
Early modern Britain, cultural and legal history, gender and race.