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Janis Appier

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Field Specialties

Twentieth Century U.S.; U.S. Women's History; Crime and Criminal Justice

Janis Appier is a social historian of the United States who has research interests in urban history, women’s history, and the history of crime and criminal justice; most of her research focuses on the twentieth century. She teaches four graduate courses: Research Seminar in U.S. History since 1933 (History 643); Readings in U.S. Women's History (History 555); Readings in U.S. History since 1850 (History 543), and Foundations of Graduate Study in History (History 510). She also teaches six undergraduate courses: The United States since 1933, The 1960s in America, U.S. Women's History, Women and Work in America, and Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States.

From 2003 to 2006, she directed two master's theses, Matthew Jones, “Colonizing Cyberspace: The Formation of Virtual Communities” (2003), and Charles Wurl, “Willie, Waylon, and Me: Mythopoetic Narratives in Outlaw Country Music” (2005). Additionally, she directed one doctoral dissertation, Angela Frye Keaton, “Unholstered and Unquestioned: The Rise of Post-World War II Gun Cultures in America” (2006).

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside; 1993

Selected Publications

  • ‘We’re Blocking Youth’s Path to Crime!’ The Los Angeles Coordinating Council during the Great Depression.” Journal of Urban History 31 (2005): 190-218.

  • "Preventive Justice: The Campaign for Women Police, 1910-1940." Women & Criminal Justice 4 (1992): 3-36; reprint in David Nelken and Gerald Mars, eds., The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology.
    Vol. 2, Mangai Natarajan, ed., Police Women. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.

  • Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD.
    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

  • "Juvenile Crime Control: Los Angeles Law Enforcement and the Zoot-Suit Riots."
    Criminal Justice History 11 (1990): 147-170.
Janis Appier

Contact Information

Janis Appier
Associate Professor of History
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065

Office: (865) 974-7085
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: jappier1@utk.edu