​Abridged Curriculum Vitae

Emily Prifogle
(it's PRY-foh-gull)​

Teaching at Michigan Law

Law in Rural America Seminar ​(Winter 2020)
Property Law (Fall 2020)
Race, Law & History Program

Service

Women Also Know History.com 
Co-Founder with Keisha Blain & Karin Wulf
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Women Also Know Law.com
Co-Founder with Leah Litman

Legal History Blog, 2013 – 2016
Weekly Book Roundup Contributor and Social-Media Coordinator 
(with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel Ernst, and Karen Tani)

Education

Princeton University
Doctor of Philosophy, History
Master of Arts, History

University of California, Berkeley
Juris Doctor

University of Oxford, England
Master of Science, Comparative Social Policy

Indiana University, Bloomington
Bachelor of Arts, History & Art History

Current Appointment 

University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Law, 2020 - Present
Assistant Professor of History (by courtesy), 2020- Present

Publications

Articles
"Legal Landscapes, Migrant Labor, and Rural Social Safety Nets:
A World of Neighbors and Strangers in Michigan before State v. Shack, 1942-1971" Law and Social Inquiry. (forthcoming)

"Winks, Whispers, and Prosecutorial Discretion in Rural Iowa, 1925-1928," Annals of Iowa​. (forthcoming 2020)

"Law & Laundry: White Laundresses, Chinese Laundrymen, and the Origins of Muller v. Oregon," Studies in Law Politics and Society. (forthcoming 2020)
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Law and Local Activism: Uncovering the Civil Rights History of Chambers v. Mississippi, 100 Calif. L. Rev. 445 (2013). 

Fellowships

University of Michigan Law School
Faculty Fellow 

Jefferson Scholars Foundation
National Fellow 

​William Nelson Cromwell Foundation
Early Career Research Fellowship

Princeton University
Teagle Teaching Graduate Fellow

Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy
Coblentz Fellow

Clerkship & Bar Admissions

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Law Clerk to the Honorable David F. Hamilton

Bar Admissions
  • ​​State Bar of California
  • Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals