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Linda K. Kerber

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May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History, Lecturer in Law Emerita, University of Iowa

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Linda K. Kerber is the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History, Lecturer in Law Emerita, University of Iowa.  She is at work on Legal Ghosts: Statelessness in a Nation of Citizens. Related publications include “The Stateless As the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United States,” American Historical Review, vol. 112,  No. 1 (Feb. 2007) pp. 1-34; “Birthright Citizenship: The Vulnerability and Resilience of an American Constitutional Principle,” in Jacqueline Bhabha, ed.,   Children Without a State: The Scope of Child Statelessness in the 21st Century, (MIT Press, 2011);  “Stateless in the Americas,” Dissent Online, November 12, 2013.