Daniel Platt
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Springfield
Legal Studies Department
E-Mail: dplat2@uis.edu
Telephone: (217)206-7807
Office: PAC 334
Bio
Daniel Platt is a teacher and scholar specializing in law, cultural history, and the history of capitalism. He earned his PhD in American Studies at Brown University in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow in interdisciplinary legal studies at the University at Buffalo School of Law.
Publications:
Moral Debt in Modern America (under contract with University of Chicago Press)
“The Domestication of Credit,” History of the Present 9 (Fall 2019), 142-165.
“The Natures of Capital: Jewish Difference and the Decline of American Usury Law, 1910-1925,” Journal of American History 104 (March 2018), 863-878.