Daniel J. Sharfstein is the Dick and Martha Lansden Chair in Law, a history professor, and co-director of the George Barrett Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt University. Prior to law school, he worked as a journalist in West Africa and southern California. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in fall 2007, he was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law. Dr. Sharfstein’s scholarship focuses on the legal history of race and citizenship in the United States.
