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Current Project​

  • The Making of Academic Authority: A Political and Legal History of Penn Medical, 1765–1877 (in progress)
     

Previous Research

  • Making Public Opinion: News Infrastructure and the Business of Public Knowledge in Early America, 1731–1792 (2026)

  • Freedom of the Press: Standing, Legal Form, and the Owner-Publisher as "The Press" (2026)

  • Beyond Print: Newspaper Consumption and Civic Institutional Knowledge in the Digital Age (2026)​

  • "Blood and Fire" in a Three-Piece Suit: Legal Elites, Knowledge Monopolies, and the Consolidation of Class Power in the Gilded Age (2025)

© 2026 Sandy C. Wu

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