Emeritus Professor
E-mail: sikutler@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)263-1835
Office: 455 North Park Street
Education:
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Biography
Historian Stanley I. Kutler has been a part of the Law School faculty since 1987, and specializes in American legal and political institutions. He has published extensively in a wide range of fields within American history, concentrating on American constitutional history and the 20th century. Most recently he is probably best known as the author of Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes.
Professor Kutler's other books include The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon; The American Inquisition, winner of the Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association, 1983; Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case; and Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics.
In addition, Professor Kutler has authored or edited a half-dozen textbooks in various fields of American history. His scholarly articles have appeared in leading history and legal periodicals. Most recently, he has edited the four-volume work, Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century America, winner of the prize for the best reference work by the Association of Book Publishers, and The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War.
Other recent projects include editing the revision of the Dictionary of American History, a 10-volume work. His Nixon books are being adapted for a Broadway play, to be produced by Metropolitan Entertainment.
