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Kate Masur

Northwestern University — Professor of History; Board of Visitors Professor

Member of the Historians Council on the Constitution

Professor Masur is a historian of the 19th-century United States. Her work focuses on slavery and emancipation, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the second founding.

Members of the Historians Council on the Constitution are not employees of the Brennan Center for Justice.