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Professor Alan Gluck very much enjoys teaching bright, inquisitive, and creative students like those at MassArt. His courses in Free Speech and The Artist: A History are discussion-based and require active participation. The aim is to build a strong and comfortable community for engaging with and learning from each other. Paper assignments are thesis-driven, requiring students to take a position and defend it with critical analysis and evidence, as well as rebutting the best counter-arguments.

Prior to teaching at MassArt, Professor Gluck taught history, government, and Constitutional Law courses for over a decade at Harvard College, where he won several teaching awards. Prior to his teaching career, Professor Gluck was a civil rights attorney in the US Department of Labor in Washington, DC, and also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York (Manhattan). Professor Gluck’s law review article, “Prisoners’ Free Speech Rights,” was selected and abstracted by the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.

Professor Gluck is very much moved by the visual arts. His favorite painting is Vermeer’s ethereal Girl With a Pearl Earring. His favorite film is Kieslowski’s magisterial Decalogue. As for literature, Professor Gluck’s favorite novel is Marcel Proust’s exquisite In Search of Lost Time; and his favorite poem, Walt Whitman’s homage to Abraham Lincoln: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”

At MassArt Alan Gluck teaches Free Speech and the Artist: A History and the first-year seminar.

Industry Experience

• Executive Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly

Government Appointments

• United States Department of Justice, New York, New York, Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., Attorney, Solicitor’s Office, Civil Rights Division

Publications

• 1977 – “Prisoners’ Free Speech Rights: The Right to Receive Publications,” Washington University Law Quarterly, p.649-685 (1977)

Awards, Honors, and Recognitions

• Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.: Head Teaching Fellow, Gov. 1341, Civil Liberties in America, Bok Center Teaching Award
• Head Teaching Fellow, Historical Studies B-61, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice, Bok Center Teaching Award and Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize Nominee
• Head Teaching Fellow, Historical Studies A-84, American Constitutional History, Bok Center Teaching Award
• Teaching Fellow, Moral Reasoning 22, Justice, Bok Center Teaching Award
• Teaching Fellow, Gov. 97a, Constitutional Democracy in America, Bok Center Teaching Award
• Guest Lecturer, Gov. 1145, Comparative Constitutional Engineering, “The Role of the Judiciary in a Democracy.”

Professional Affiliations

• Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia