Julie Novkov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1324388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Novkov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Novkov |
| SIGNATURE | NOVKOV J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6061-2821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Advantages of taking the Long View
From the rotting soil grows the poison ivy
In recent years, the Court has swung sharply to the right but has thus far declined to support the most antidemocratic and radically authoritarian agendas of the Trumpist wing of the Republican Party. While scholars and concerned Americans have focused on the visible things the Court is dismantling and fretted about its potential for enhancing constitutional rot, this article sketches out what the Court is building. It illustrates that this const…
West Virginia v. EPA
American by Birth
Law, Policy, and Sexual Abuse in the #MeToo Movement
This article considers gymnastics to illustrate how culture, law, and elite youth sports intertwine, focusing on the recent revelations of sexual abuse. It proposes an intervention based in the work of theorist Joseph Fischel that pushes toward a more robust conception of athlete empowerment. This stance, if more fully instantiated in culture, law, and sports regulation, would have two salutary effects: first, it would acknowledge much more fully…
How Do We Solve a Problem Like the Donald? The Democratic Challenge of Trump Supporters and the Politics of Presidential Removal
Political observers have debated whether and how to remove Donald J. Trump from the office of the presidency. This article explains the difficulties associated with both the Twenty-Fifth Amendment’s incapacity route and impeachment. These difficulties illuminate a larger underlying problem with American democracy that the Trump presidency both crystallizes and reinforces: the emergence of an energized core of political participants who unite arou…
Civic Membership, Family Status, and the Chinese in America, 1870s–1920s
Chinese women and children, or their advocates, brought many legal challenges to decrees denying them entry into the United States or seeking to deport them. Relying on more than 150 reported habeas corpus cases decided in West Coast federal courts between 1875 and 1924, we examine how courts helped to structure the rise of the administrative state through controversies involving the boundaries of citizenship, legal residency, and familial status…
Response to Megan Ming Francis's review of Statebuilding from the Margins
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Understanding Law as a Democratic Institution Through US Constitutional Development
This essay reviews Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume I: Structures of Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), and Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume II: Rights and Liberties (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). It defends developmental approaches in the study of US constitutional law. It explains how law has been studied in…
Identity and institutions in political history
In this forum we bring together scholars, mostly from the discipline of political science, who use historical analysis to interrogate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in institutional develo
Three Worlds of Relief
Race and American Political Development
1. Race and American Political Development, Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian Warren 2. Race and the Dual State in Antebellum America Richard Young & Jeffrey Meiser 3. Charleston, the Vesey Conspiracy, and the Development of the Police Power, Kathleen Sullivan 4. Racial Orders in American Political Development Desmond King & Rogers Smith 5. Hierarchy and Hybridity: The Internal Poscolonialism of Mid-Nineteenth Century American, Kevin Bruyn…
Minutes of the August 31, 2011, Council Meeting
A regular meeting of the American Political Science Association Council was held in Seattle, Washington, on August 31, 2011. The meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by President Pateman. President Pateman declared a quorum present
Gazette
welcomed everyone to Albuquerque and extended a special
Legal Archaeology
This article proposes a mode of analysis drawing from historical institutionalism and American political development but that is generated more organically from within the study of law. This approach, legal archaeology, focuses on the production of legal discourse while attending to the institutional boundaries and conditions around this production. Legal archaeology is particularly useful for understanding the role of law in constructing subordi…
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered in Political Science
This article reviews the results of a discipline-wide survey concerning lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered in the discipline. We find that both research and teaching on LGBT topics have made some headway into the discipline, and that political scientists largely accept that LGBT issues can be fundamentally political and are worth studying and teaching for that reason. Nonetheless, troubling questions about discrimination both agains…
Racial Union
In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was alarmingly slim: more than half a million voters, 40 percent of those who went to the polls, voted to retain a racist and constitutionally untenable l…
The Miscegenation/Same-Sex Marriage Analogy
It has become commonplace among historically inclined legal scholars to look to the history of the United States’ elimination of bans on mixed-race sexual relationships for guidance about the recent controversy over same-sex marriage. This article argues that, while the analogy is helpful, it is not perfect because of the particular historical circumstances of the battle over antimiscegenation laws. Because regulations against interracial marriag…
Bringing the States Back In
A wealth of scholarship has addressed the connections among legal categorization and regulation, subordinated identity, and the process of political development in the United States. Focusing primarily upon the U.S. Supreme Court, this scholarship has enhanced our understandings of both the legal generation of group identity and constitutional/political development. Nonetheless, it misses a significant aspect of development due to its national lo…
Rethinking Race in American Politics
This piece introduces the four articles in this issue's minisymposium by explaining how they fit in with an emerging body of scholarship that places race centrally in asking and answering questions about American political development. The author identifies common themes and debates among the articles that contribute to understandings of the role of race in American politics and to different approaches in American political development. The autho…
Mobilizing Liberalism in Defense of Racism
Research Article| January 01 2007 Mobilizing Liberalism in Defense of Racism Julie Novkov Julie Novkov Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (1): 30–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711248 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Novkov; Mobilizing Liberalism in Defense of Racism. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (1): 30–39. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711248…
Survey of Textbooks for Teaching Introduction to U.S. Politics
The Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered [LGBT] in the Profession has authorized this review of 17 recent editions of top-selling textbooks marketed for use in courses providing an introduction to U.S. politics
Mixed Race America and the Law
Book Review| October 01 2003 Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader, Kevin R. Johnson. Julie Novkov Julie Novkov Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 143–144. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501411 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Novkov; Mixed Race America and the Law:…
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Racial Constructions
For over one hundred years—from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era—the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections reveals much about the interplay between legal and social de…
Survey of Textbooks for Teaching Introduction to U.S. Politics
The Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered [LGBT] in the Profession has authorized this review of 17 recent editions of top-selling textbooks marketed for use in courses providing an introduction to U.S. politics
Bringing the States Back In
A wealth of scholarship has addressed the connections among legal categorization and regulation, subordinated identity, and the process of political development in the United States. Focusing primarily upon the U.S. Supreme Court, this scholarship has enhanced our understandings of both the legal generation of group identity and constitutional/political development. Nonetheless, it misses a significant aspect of development due to its national lo…
Rethinking Race in American Politics
This piece introduces the four articles in this issue's minisymposium by explaining how they fit in with an emerging body of scholarship that places race centrally in asking and answering questions about American political development. The author identifies common themes and debates among the articles that contribute to understandings of the role of race in American politics and to different approaches in American political development. The autho…
The Miscegenation/Same-Sex Marriage Analogy
It has become commonplace among historically inclined legal scholars to look to the history of the United States’ elimination of bans on mixed-race sexual relationships for guidance about the recent controversy over same-sex marriage. This article argues that, while the analogy is helpful, it is not perfect because of the particular historical circumstances of the battle over antimiscegenation laws. Because regulations against interracial marriag…
From the rotting soil grows the poison ivy
In recent years, the Court has swung sharply to the right but has thus far declined to support the most antidemocratic and radically authoritarian agendas of the Trumpist wing of the Republican Party. While scholars and concerned Americans have focused on the visible things the Court is dismantling and fretted about its potential for enhancing constitutional rot, this article sketches out what the Court is building. It illustrates that this const…
West Virginia v. EPA
Legal Archaeology
This article proposes a mode of analysis drawing from historical institutionalism and American political development but that is generated more organically from within the study of law. This approach, legal archaeology, focuses on the production of legal discourse while attending to the institutional boundaries and conditions around this production. Legal archaeology is particularly useful for understanding the role of law in constructing subordi…
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered in Political Science
This article reviews the results of a discipline-wide survey concerning lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered in the discipline. We find that both research and teaching on LGBT topics have made some headway into the discipline, and that political scientists largely accept that LGBT issues can be fundamentally political and are worth studying and teaching for that reason. Nonetheless, troubling questions about discrimination both agains…
Racial Constructions
For over one hundred years—from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era—the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections reveals much about the interplay between legal and social de…
Civic Membership, Family Status, and the Chinese in America, 1870s–1920s
Chinese women and children, or their advocates, brought many legal challenges to decrees denying them entry into the United States or seeking to deport them. Relying on more than 150 reported habeas corpus cases decided in West Coast federal courts between 1875 and 1924, we examine how courts helped to structure the rise of the administrative state through controversies involving the boundaries of citizenship, legal residency, and familial status…
Law, Policy, and Sexual Abuse in the #MeToo Movement
This article considers gymnastics to illustrate how culture, law, and elite youth sports intertwine, focusing on the recent revelations of sexual abuse. It proposes an intervention based in the work of theorist Joseph Fischel that pushes toward a more robust conception of athlete empowerment. This stance, if more fully instantiated in culture, law, and sports regulation, would have two salutary effects: first, it would acknowledge much more fully…
Mixed Race America and the Law
Book Review| October 01 2003 Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader, Kevin R. Johnson. Julie Novkov Julie Novkov Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 143–144. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501411 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Novkov; Mixed Race America and the Law:…
Identity and institutions in political history
In this forum we bring together scholars, mostly from the discipline of political science, who use historical analysis to interrogate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in institutional develo
Liberty, Protection, and Women's Work
During the Progressive Era, the U. S. state and federal courts considered constitutional challenges to protective labor legislation. While courts often struck down generalized protective legislation, they frequently upheld such legislation for women. I explore the reasoning in the cases decided between 1897 and 1923, showing that the courts developed understandings of liberty for women that differed from those for men. In opposition to traditiona…
Liberty, Protection, and Women's Work
During the Progressive Era, the U. S. state and federal courts considered constitutional challenges to protective labor legislation. While courts often struck down generalized protective legislation, they frequently upheld such legislation for women. I explore the reasoning in the cases decided between 1897 and 1923, showing that the courts developed understandings of liberty for women that differed from those for men. In opposition to traditiona…
Liberty, Equality, and Justice
Journal Article Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Regulation of Business, 1865–1932 Get access Paulson Ross Evans, Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Regulation of Business, 1865–1932. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. vii, 361 pp. $59.95 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). Julie Novkov Julie Novkov University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking
Journal Article Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking Get access Schneider Elizabeth M., Battered Women and Feminist LawmakingNew Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. xiii, 317 pp. $29.95 Julie Novkov Julie Novkov University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 511–512, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113838 Published: 01 Octobe…
Historicizing the Figure of the Child in Legal Discourse
Racial Constructions
For over one hundred years—from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era—the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections reveals much about the interplay between legal and social de…
Mixed Race America and the Law
Book Review| October 01 2003 Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader, Kevin R. Johnson. Julie Novkov Julie Novkov Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 143–144. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501411 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Novkov; Mixed Race America and the Law:…
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Mobilizing Liberalism in Defense of Racism
Research Article| January 01 2007 Mobilizing Liberalism in Defense of Racism Julie Novkov Julie Novkov Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (1): 30–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711248 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Novkov; Mobilizing Liberalism in Defense of Racism. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (1): 30–39. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711248…
Survey of Textbooks for Teaching Introduction to U.S. Politics
The Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered [LGBT] in the Profession has authorized this review of 17 recent editions of top-selling textbooks marketed for use in courses providing an introduction to U.S. politics
Racial Union
In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was alarmingly slim: more than half a million voters, 40 percent of those who went to the polls, voted to retain a racist and constitutionally untenable l…
The Miscegenation/Same-Sex Marriage Analogy
It has become commonplace among historically inclined legal scholars to look to the history of the United States’ elimination of bans on mixed-race sexual relationships for guidance about the recent controversy over same-sex marriage. This article argues that, while the analogy is helpful, it is not perfect because of the particular historical circumstances of the battle over antimiscegenation laws. Because regulations against interracial marriag…
Bringing the States Back In
A wealth of scholarship has addressed the connections among legal categorization and regulation, subordinated identity, and the process of political development in the United States. Focusing primarily upon the U.S. Supreme Court, this scholarship has enhanced our understandings of both the legal generation of group identity and constitutional/political development. Nonetheless, it misses a significant aspect of development due to its national lo…
Rethinking Race in American Politics
This piece introduces the four articles in this issue's minisymposium by explaining how they fit in with an emerging body of scholarship that places race centrally in asking and answering questions about American political development. The author identifies common themes and debates among the articles that contribute to understandings of the role of race in American politics and to different approaches in American political development. The autho…
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered in Political Science
This article reviews the results of a discipline-wide survey concerning lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered in the discipline. We find that both research and teaching on LGBT topics have made some headway into the discipline, and that political scientists largely accept that LGBT issues can be fundamentally political and are worth studying and teaching for that reason. Nonetheless, troubling questions about discrimination both agains…
Gazette
welcomed everyone to Albuquerque and extended a special
Legal Archaeology
This article proposes a mode of analysis drawing from historical institutionalism and American political development but that is generated more organically from within the study of law. This approach, legal archaeology, focuses on the production of legal discourse while attending to the institutional boundaries and conditions around this production. Legal archaeology is particularly useful for understanding the role of law in constructing subordi…
Race and American Political Development
1. Race and American Political Development, Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian Warren 2. Race and the Dual State in Antebellum America Richard Young & Jeffrey Meiser 3. Charleston, the Vesey Conspiracy, and the Development of the Police Power, Kathleen Sullivan 4. Racial Orders in American Political Development Desmond King & Rogers Smith 5. Hierarchy and Hybridity: The Internal Poscolonialism of Mid-Nineteenth Century American, Kevin Bruyn…
Minutes of the August 31, 2011, Council Meeting
A regular meeting of the American Political Science Association Council was held in Seattle, Washington, on August 31, 2011. The meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by President Pateman. President Pateman declared a quorum present
Identity and institutions in political history
In this forum we bring together scholars, mostly from the discipline of political science, who use historical analysis to interrogate the role of race, gender, and sexuality in institutional develo
Three Worlds of Relief
Response to Megan Ming Francis's review of Statebuilding from the Margins
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Understanding Law as a Democratic Institution Through US Constitutional Development
This essay reviews Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume I: Structures of Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), and Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume II: Rights and Liberties (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). It defends developmental approaches in the study of US constitutional law. It explains how law has been studied in…
Civic Membership, Family Status, and the Chinese in America, 1870s–1920s
Chinese women and children, or their advocates, brought many legal challenges to decrees denying them entry into the United States or seeking to deport them. Relying on more than 150 reported habeas corpus cases decided in West Coast federal courts between 1875 and 1924, we examine how courts helped to structure the rise of the administrative state through controversies involving the boundaries of citizenship, legal residency, and familial status…
How Do We Solve a Problem Like the Donald? The Democratic Challenge of Trump Supporters and the Politics of Presidential Removal
Political observers have debated whether and how to remove Donald J. Trump from the office of the presidency. This article explains the difficulties associated with both the Twenty-Fifth Amendment’s incapacity route and impeachment. These difficulties illuminate a larger underlying problem with American democracy that the Trump presidency both crystallizes and reinforces: the emergence of an energized core of political participants who unite arou…
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