Distinguished Learning Center Specialist
Division for Teaching and Learning (DTL) | Center for Educational Opportunity (CeO)
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Shawn Francis Peters is a nationally-recognized expert on American legal history. The author of eight scholarly books, he teaches in the Center for Educational Opportunity (CeO), which serves first-generation and low-income students at UW-Madison.
Talks:
Rogues of the Gilded Age
From murder and political corruption to fraud on an international scale, historian Shawn Francis Peters examines three remarkable nineteenth-century scandals and the larger world of ambition, deception, and notoriety that made them possible.
Faith on Trial
Historian Shawn Francis Peters examines four landmark clashes between religious conviction and American law, from Jehovah’s Witnesses and Amish families to faith healing controversies and the antiwar activism of the Catonsville Nine.
Outlaws, Believers, and Charlatans: America’s Struggles over Crime, Conscience, and Deception
Through seven remarkable true stories, historian Shawn Francis Peters explores murder, fraud, political corruption, religious conflict, and protest in America, revealing how notorious individuals and controversial movements tested the nation’s laws, values, and imagination.