Professor Dudziak is a legal historian who is interested in the relationship between international affairs and domestic law and politics, and in comparative constitutional history. She has written extensively about the impact of foreign affairs on U.S. civil rights policy during the Cold War. Her publications include Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (Oxford University Press), Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press), "Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative," "The Little Rock Crisis: Race, Resistance, and the Image of American Democracy," "The Supreme Court and Racial Equality During World War II," and "Josephine Baker, Racial Protest and the Cold War," and she is the editor of September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (Duke University Press), and co-editor of Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (Johns Hopkins University Press). She is currently at work on a revisionist account of law and war in the 20th century United States.

Professor Dudziak teaches Constitutional Law, Procedure, Comparative Constitutional Law, Human Rights in U.S. History, the Constitution in the 20th Century, Globalism and U.S. History, and a seminar on Law and Social Change in Post-War America.