Faculty and Staff
Dana Y. Rabin
Department of History
University of Illinois
810 South Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
telephone (217) 244-2090
fax (217) 333-2297
406 West Vermont Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
telephone (217) 337-1286
e-mail: drabin@uiuc.edu
Academic Positions
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (8/03- )
Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Department of History.
Faculty Affiliate in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society.
Indiana State University, Terre Haute (8/02-8/03)
Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Department of History.
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (9/88-5/96)
Ph.D. 1996; M.A. 1990.
Dissertation: "'Of Persons Capable of Committing Crimes': Law and Responsibility in England, 1660-1800." Chairs: Michael MacDonald and Thomas A. Green; Committee: Kali Israel, Thomas Tentler, Lincoln Faller (English).
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (9/83-5/87)
Major: History. B.A. cum laude, 1987.
Ressearch and Teaching Interests
The social and cultural history of early modern Britain; empire, race, and nation in Britain; Britain in the global eighteenth-century; women and gender in early modern Europe; early modern Jewish history; the Jewish Atlantic world; the Enlightenment and the self; the history of crime; the history of emotion; Anglo-American legal history; madness in early modern Europe.
Awards and Fellowships
Humanities Released Time (8/05-12/05)
One-semester leave awarded by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for work on book project, "Foreskins and Fornication: Serving-maids, Circumcision, and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
Mellon Faculty Fellows Program (8/04-12/04)
One-semester fellowship awarded by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for work on book project, "Foreskins and Fornication: Serving-maids, Circumcision, and Legal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship (9/00-8/01)
Awarded by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California for completion of book manuscript, "Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England."
Publications
Book
Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Articles
"The Jew Bill of 1753: Masculinity, Virility, and the Nation." Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006): 157-171.
With Craig Koslofsky. "The Limits of the State: Suicide, Assassination, and Execution in Early Modern Europe." In Sterben von eigener Hand: Selbsttötung als kulturelle Praxis. Edited by Hans Medick and Andreas Baehr. Cologne, Vienna, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2005, pp. 45-64.
"Drunkenness and Responsibility for Crime in the Eighteenth Century." Journal of British Studies 44 (2005): 457-477.
"Beyond 'lewd women' and 'wanton wenches': Infanticide and Child Murder in the Long Eighteenth Century." In Writing British Infanticide: Child Murder and the Rise of the Novelist. Edited by Jennifer Thorn (English, Colby College). Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003, pp. 37-69.
"Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials, 1730-1800." Eighteenth-Century Life 27 (2003): 85-106.
"Bodies of Evidence, States of Mind: Infanticide, Emotion, and Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century England." In Infanticide: Historical Perspectives, 1550-2000. Edited by Mark Jackson (History, University of Exeter). London: Ashgate, 2002, pp. 73-92.
In Progress
"The Sorceress, the Servant, and the Stays." 7000-word manuscript completed for a volume titled Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Empire edited by Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballentyne.
"The Chelsea Murder of 1771: Jewish History from Below " Article-length manuscript in preparation for submission to Jewish Culture and History.
"Imperial Disruptions: Serving-maids, Circumcision, Race, and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain." Book-length manuscript in preparation.
Presentations
North American Conference on British Studies: Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (10/8/05)
Presented a paper titled "Virtue Coerc'd! Probability and Credibility in the Eighteenth-Century Courts."
Jews, Empire and Race: International Conference, Southampton, UK (7/27/05)
Presented a paper titled "Jews and Gypsies in 1753: A Case Study."
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Claremont, CA (6/4/05)
Co-organized a panel on "Women and the Law: A Global Perspective." Presented a paper titled "The Trials of Mary Squires and Susannah Wells: Women, Age, and Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
American Historical Association: Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (1/7/05)
Presented "The Jew Bill of 1753: Masculinity, Virility, and Nation" on a panel sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies titled "Eighteenth-Century Bodies and Political Culture."