Speaker Series: Mugambi Jouet

Mugambi Jouet’s research focuses on American exceptionalism, criminal justice, and comparative history from a multidisciplinary perspective. He is an expert on the distinctive historical evolution of American law, government, and sociopolitical culture compared to other Western democracies.

His scholarship has notably analyzed the death penalty, mass incarceration, juvenile justice, guns, abortion, and the historiography of key concepts, from “American exceptionalism” to the “Western world.” In 2022, he won the Brophy Prize for the article that “most significantly breaks new ground and adds new insights to the study and understanding of United States legal history.” In 2025, he received the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award.