Magdalene Zier

Magdalene is a Ph.D. candidate in History. She also holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and an A.B. from Harvard College. Magdalene’s research focuses on gender, race, and law in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. Her dissertation, “Women at the Bar: Forging Feminism through Law and Liquor,” examines how bars became legal battlegrounds over public gender roles and over sex segregation in labor and leisure. Her scholarship has been published in the Stanford Law Review, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Magdalene clerked for the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and, prior to graduate school, she worked at the NAACP’s Baltimore headquarters.