DAVID J. BODENHAMER

Professor of History; Adjunct Professor of American Studies. B.A. Carson-Newman College 1969, M.A. University of Alabama 1970, Ph.D. Indiana University 1977. Director, Polis Center.

Teaching and research interests: Anglo-American legal and constitutional history, history of criminal justice and criminal law, nineteenth-century United States.

Publications: Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South (1984, with James W. Ely, Jr.); The Pursuit of Justice: Crime and Law in Antebellum Indiana (1986); Fair Trial: Rights of the Accused in American History (1992); The Bill of Rights in Modern America: After 200 Years (1993, with James W. Ely, Jr.); The Main Stem: The History and Architecture of North Meridian Street (1992, with Lamont Hulse and Elizabeth Brand Monroe); The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (1994, with Robert G. Barrows); numerous journal articles and chapters in books.

Recipient of many personal and institutional research grants from a wide variety of funding agencies.

Office: 1200 Waterway Blvd, Suite 100
Phone: (317) 274-2455
intu100@iupui.edu