Naama Maor is a legal and social historian of the United States. Her research and teaching explore the emergence and transformation of modern legal regimes and the regulation of family and intimate life. Maor’s current research project traces the interconnected development of the American carceral state and welfare state through the early history of the juvenile justice system and its effect on parents, children, and the household.
Maor received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, after having completed a B.A. and M.A at Tel Aviv University. Her research, which has been supported by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) and the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, earned the ASLH’s Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars award as well as a Stanford Center for Law and History award. Her dissertation received an honorable mention as a finalist for the Society for the History of Children and Youth’s dissertation award.
