Professor Dale has published four books: Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939 (Cambridge, 2011); The Chicago Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century (NIU, 2011); The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis (Ohio State, 2001) and Debating- and Creating-Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 (Ashgate, 2001). She has also published articles in a number of journals including Law and History Review and the American Historical Review. She recently published a chapter--"Popular Sovereignty: An Antebellum Case Study”--in Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling the State, edited by Alain Marciano (Spring 2011) and has another chapter --“Reconsidering the Seventeenth-Century: Legal History in the Americas,”--coming out in the Blackwell Companion to American Legal History, edited by Sally Hadden and Alfred Brophy. She is currently working on two new projects: one looks at transnational constitutional movements in China between 1890-1920, the second explores the relationship between popular sovereignty and citizenship in US constitutional history.
Dr. Dale regularly teaches graduate courses in American Legal and Constitutional History, Comparative Constitutional History, and undergraduate courses on a variety of topics in American Constitutional and Legal History. In 2010-2011, while on sabbatical, Dr. Dale was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago Department of History; in Spring 2005, she served as a Fulbright lecturer/researcher at Shandong University Law School, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China. Recognition includes: Mahon Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2000- 01), Norman Wilensky Graduate Teaching Award (2007-2008), and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities Enhancement Fellowships (Summer 2009; Summer 2001).
Dr. Dale serves as Coordinator for the JD/MA/PhD program at UF and has begun her third term on the editorial board for Law and History Review (2010-2015).
