Lecturer
B.A., European Studies, New York University
J.D., Harvard Law School
Ph.D., History, 2010, University of Oregon
Office: UW1-146
Phone:425-352-3352
Email: cwalsh@uwb.edu, camwalsh@u.washington.edu
Mailing: Box 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246
Teaching
Above all, I want students in my classes to leave with new ways of thinking about a particular subject, whether law, race, policy, gender or history. Though information is important, I believe the far more crucial learning process is for students to develop new methods of argument and critical lenses of analysis that they can then bring to bear on any problems or narratives they come across in the future. To this end, my classes focus on collective learning, involving workshop activities and document analysis along with exposure to numerous types of sources in readings, lecture and discussions, from songs, legal opinions, memoirs, film, government documents, art and more. I rely on small group exercises and often center classes on student-directed learning through case studies, reading selections, class facilitations, team presentations, ongoing assessment and other tools. My research focuses on education precisely because of my strong belief in quality education as a potentially transformative experience that should be accessible to all. I strive to bring that commitment into every classroom.
Recent Courses Taught
Human Rights
Introduction to Law
Law, Economics and Public Policy
US Politics and Culture to/from 1865
Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States
US Legal History, 1789-Present
African American History since 1865
American Radicalism
20th Century US History
US Women's History since 1865
Race, Class, and Gender in US Legal History
Gender Law and Policy
Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Research/Scholarship
My research is centered on the interdisciplinary intersections of law, inequality, race and class and the implications of particular historical processes on social justice movements. I have spent the last several years immersed in the ramifications for educational policy of unequal and racialized taxation and funding, and am currently revising my book manuscript, Racial Taxation: School Finance and "Taxpayer Citizenship," 1869-1973. This manuscript argues that the separation of race and class identities by courts and lawyers in education cases was deeply linked to property tax finance structures which both solidified school inequality and entrenched racial segregation while contributing to the emergence of a far-reaching "taxpayer citizen" identity tying tax payments to the right to education. I have also recently started research on my next project, Red Scare Women's Rights: The "Long Cold War" and the Nineteenth Amendment, which focuses on how the role of women in socialist Russia's early days had a propaganda impact on the debates over the political position of women in the U.S. in the same period and traces the diaspora of ideas around women's rights at the beginning of the "long Cold War."
Selected Publications
"Erasing Race, Dismissing Class: San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez." Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, April 2011.