Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and 2017 LSA Collegiate Fellow (Sociology)
About
Dr. Mahan is broadly interested in how tensions within male and masculine hierarchies get articulated through law, crime, and punishment. Her current project examines the racial and nativist origins of US domestic violence law. It is an extension of her dissertation, which demonstrates how ostensibly "feminist" Southern wife-beating laws were in fact a post-Civil War white supremacist response to the legalization of black family formation.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Domestic violence, law, race, gender
