Daniel LaChance
@dwlachance.bsky.social
Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
What a great day celebrating Austin Sarat’s FIFTY years of teaching at Amherst College.I got to speak on this panel in the morning and then again in the afternoon about how influential his scholarship and mentorship has been to me.
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What a great day celebrating Austin Sarat’s FIFTY years of teaching at Amherst College.I got to speak on this panel in the morning and then again in the afternoon about how influential his scholarship and mentorship has been to me.
Emory has “de-promoted” President Greg Fenves, removing him as president and creating a chancellorship position for him to occupy, presumably at a high salary, as budgets are being slashed 30% across all units and a pay and hiring freeze are in effect.
www.chronicle.com/article/emor...
www.chronicle.com/article/emor...
May 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Emory has “de-promoted” President Greg Fenves, removing him as president and creating a chancellorship position for him to occupy, presumably at a high salary, as budgets are being slashed 30% across all units and a pay and hiring freeze are in effect.
www.chronicle.com/article/emor...
www.chronicle.com/article/emor...
The deluge of flimsy white folding chairs has flooded the quad—graduation is nigh…
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The deluge of flimsy white folding chairs has flooded the quad—graduation is nigh…
Today, Emory University @emoryuniversity.bsky.social faculty marched today to protest the erosion of shared governance at our institution and to urge President Greg Fenves to join the 200 college & university presidents who signed the AAUC’s statement of commitment to academic freedom.
April 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today, Emory University @emoryuniversity.bsky.social faculty marched today to protest the erosion of shared governance at our institution and to urge President Greg Fenves to join the 200 college & university presidents who signed the AAUC’s statement of commitment to academic freedom.
Last week, I spoke at a conference on capital punishment & religion at the University of Texas Law School. Best of all was meeting a hero of mine, Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking"-- kind, down-to-earth, funny, and still doing the work at 85. We should all be so lucky!
April 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Last week, I spoke at a conference on capital punishment & religion at the University of Texas Law School. Best of all was meeting a hero of mine, Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking"-- kind, down-to-earth, funny, and still doing the work at 85. We should all be so lucky!
So thrilled for my advisee, Emilyn Hazelbrook, who defended her incredible honors thesis on battered woman syndrom, "Premeditated But Not Guilty: The Rise and Fall of the Battered Woman Legal Defense." Her committee awarded her highest honors!
March 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
So thrilled for my advisee, Emilyn Hazelbrook, who defended her incredible honors thesis on battered woman syndrom, "Premeditated But Not Guilty: The Rise and Fall of the Battered Woman Legal Defense." Her committee awarded her highest honors!
Our Bronze Star Award Arrived!!! SILVER, we’re coming for you!
Let me know if you need any pointers, @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
Let me know if you need any pointers, @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our Bronze Star Award Arrived!!! SILVER, we’re coming for you!
Let me know if you need any pointers, @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
Let me know if you need any pointers, @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article today on the low morale of many faculty at Emory. I joined my colleagues (I'm the one in red) in protest of the erosion of shared governance at Emory. www.ajc.com/education/em...
February 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article today on the low morale of many faculty at Emory. I joined my colleagues (I'm the one in red) in protest of the erosion of shared governance at Emory. www.ajc.com/education/em...
Moon over Emory
January 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Moon over Emory
New Year, New Novel, Same Cuddly Cat
January 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New Year, New Novel, Same Cuddly Cat
Back when I started teaching at Emory, President Carter would have lunch monthly with 4 faculty members. I was lucky enough to meet him this way.
He showed courage and leadership calling for an end to the death penalty in the United States. His moral vision is needed now more than ever.
He showed courage and leadership calling for an end to the death penalty in the United States. His moral vision is needed now more than ever.
December 30, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Back when I started teaching at Emory, President Carter would have lunch monthly with 4 faculty members. I was lucky enough to meet him this way.
He showed courage and leadership calling for an end to the death penalty in the United States. His moral vision is needed now more than ever.
He showed courage and leadership calling for an end to the death penalty in the United States. His moral vision is needed now more than ever.
Too much Christmas!
December 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Too much Christmas!
Got engaged to this kind and handsome fella two nights ago :)
December 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Got engaged to this kind and handsome fella two nights ago :)
Visual Criminologists: Check out Emory Ph.D. candidate David Nichols's article on the degrading images of men in El Salvador's prisons produced and released by the state in 2020. This piece, published in the journal Social Text, is open access for three months:
read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
December 11, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Visual Criminologists: Check out Emory Ph.D. candidate David Nichols's article on the degrading images of men in El Salvador's prisons produced and released by the state in 2020. This piece, published in the journal Social Text, is open access for three months:
read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
Interested in the past and present of the American death penalty? My first book, "Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment," is once again on Amazon's digital remains table for $0.75. www.amazon.com/Executing-Fr...
December 7, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Interested in the past and present of the American death penalty? My first book, "Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment," is once again on Amazon's digital remains table for $0.75. www.amazon.com/Executing-Fr...
I mean who doesn’t love a “light academia soft piano soundtrack”?!
December 5, 2024 at 12:33 AM
I mean who doesn’t love a “light academia soft piano soundtrack”?!
Thanksgiving at our friends’ home in Fort Worth featured their pets, including best friends Chester and Wilbur. Wilbur grooms Chester daily 💜
December 2, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Thanksgiving at our friends’ home in Fort Worth featured their pets, including best friends Chester and Wilbur. Wilbur grooms Chester daily 💜
Law & Humanities scholars: Stanford will host the next Law & Humanities Junior Scholars workshop next June. Open to graduate students and early career scholars. Get incredible feedback on your chapter or article in progress--travel and accommodations provided. Apply! Deadline is December 9.
December 2, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Law & Humanities scholars: Stanford will host the next Law & Humanities Junior Scholars workshop next June. Open to graduate students and early career scholars. Get incredible feedback on your chapter or article in progress--travel and accommodations provided. Apply! Deadline is December 9.
Advanced doctoral students, early career faculty, and recent J.D.s: Doing work in legal history, broadly defined? Apply for the 2025 Hurst Institute in Legal History, a two week workshop and seminar in June. Deadline 1/15/25. More info: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...
December 1, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Advanced doctoral students, early career faculty, and recent J.D.s: Doing work in legal history, broadly defined? Apply for the 2025 Hurst Institute in Legal History, a two week workshop and seminar in June. Deadline 1/15/25. More info: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...