Megan Threlkeld
Professor
Chair of Legal Studies
Biography
As a graduate of a small liberal arts college (Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wisconsin) and a lifelong Midwesterner, I am delighted to be at Denison, where I enjoy working closely with students and colleagues from across campus.
Degree(s)
B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
Learning & Teaching
Courses
- LS 101: Introduction to Legal Studies
- W101 (First-Year Writing Workshop): History Wars
- HIST 192/WGST 223: U.S. Women’s History
- HIST 194: Citizenship & Belonging in U.S. History
- HIST 195: The U.S. in the World, 1890-present
- HIST 205: Protests of the 1960s
- HIST/WGST 292: History of Reproductive Justice
- HIST 392/BLST 332: The Fourteenth Amendment
- HIST 430 (Senior Seminar): The U.S. Becomes a World Power
Academic Positions
- Professor of History, 2020-present
- Associate Professor of History, 2014-2020
- Assistant Professor of History, 2008-2014
Research
Details
I am a historian of the 20th-century United States, focusing on law, foreign relations, and women and gender. My current book, Selective Justice: The Draft, the Law, and the Vietnam War (under contract with Cambridge University Press), is a study of legal battles over the draft in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Works
Publications
Please see my CV (linked above) for a full list of my publications.
Service
Professional Memberships
- Organization of American Historians
- American Society for Legal History
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Society for Military Historians
Professional Service (includes Denison Service)
- Cofounder (2023-2024) and Director (2024-present), Legal Studies Program
- Chair, Department of History (2023-2026)
- President’s Senior Faculty Advisory Board (2022-2025)
- Director, Denison Writing Program (2016-2019, Fall 2023)
Other
Grants & Funding
- Denison University Research Foundation Grant, 2025
- Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2023
- Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2022
- R.C. Good Faculty Fellowship, Denison University, 2022
Honors & Awards
- Michael G. and Barbara W. Rahal Endowed Professorship, 2020-2025
