Holly Brewer

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Holly Brewer, born October 22, 1964, is a legal historian.[1] She has been Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 2011.[2] Before that she was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of History at NC State in Raleigh, NC.[1]

Education[]

She earned her doctorate at UCLA in 1994 in American History (with specialties in British History and Political Theory) and her A.B. at Harvard/Radcliffe in 1986 in History of Science, specializing in early modern European History and Physics, magna cum laude.[citation needed]

While a graduate student, she submitted an article: "Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia: 'Ancient Feudal Restraints' and Revolutionary Reforms," published in the ''William and Mary Quarterly'' in April 1997.[3] It won multiple awards: the Lester J. Cappon award for the best article published that year in the WMQ; the Douglass Adair Memorial Award for 2000 for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in the past six years;[4] and the James Clifford Prize for 1998 for the best article on any aspect of eighteenth-century culture, given by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.[5] It showed how the revolution impacted inheritance law in Virginia, arguing that feudal and hierarchical norms of inheritance via primogeniture were replaced by norms that allowed inheritance by all children, but that had problematic consequences for those enslaved because it separated Black families.[6]

Author[]

Her first book, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority grew out of her 1994 UCLA dissertation.[7] It was also awarded three prizes, the 2008 Biennial Book Award of the Order of the Coif from the Association of American Law Schools;[8] the 2006 J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association;[7] and the 2006 Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History.[9]

Guggenheim Fellowship[]

In 2014 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.[10] She received that award for her work then in progress, on "Slavery, Sovereignty and Inheritable Blood," part of which was published as "Slavery, Sovereignty, and 'Inheritable Blood”: Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery,' in The American Historical Review in 2017.[11] It was awarded the 2019 Srinivas Aravaduman Prize for an article "that pushes the boundaries, geographical and conceptual, of eighteenth-century studies, especially by using a transnational, comparative, or cosmopolitan approach" by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.[12] It was also awarded an honorable mention for the Clifford Prize.[5] She published a more publicly version of it in AEON.[13]

She also wrote the "Transformation of Domestic Law" in the Cambridge History of Law in America (2008).[14]

Between 2010 and 2021, she served as co-editor of Studies in Legal History the Book Series of the American Society for Legal History, published with Cambridge University Press.[15]

Publications[]

  • By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, & the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (UNC Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2005).
  • The Transformation of Domestic Law.” Christopher Tomlins & Michael Grossberg, eds., The Cambridge History of Law in America 1 (2008): 288-323.
  • “Slavery, Sovereignty, and “Inheritable Blood”: Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery,” The American Historical Review,” Volume 122, Issue 4, October 2017, pp. 1038–1078.
  • “No, Thomas Jefferson didn’t Rig the Vote Count,” Washington Monthly, January 5, 2021.
  • “Race & the Enlightenment: The Story of a Slander” Liberties Journal 2 (2021).
  • "Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire," Law and History Review, 39(4), 765-834, 2021. doi:10.1017/S0738248021000407
    • Available earlier on SSRN as "Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its Empire," (October 14, 2014). Paper Presented at the Yale Legal History Forum, October 2014. ssrn.3828635
  • “Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia, ‘Ancient Feudal Restraints’ and Revolutionary Reform,” William and Mary Quarterly, 1997.
  • “Slavery-Entangled Philosophy: Does Locke’s Entanglement with Slavery Undermine his Philosophy?” AEON, September 12, 2018.
  • “Hearing Nat Turner: Within the 1831 Slave Rebellion,” Law & Social Inquiry 46(3), August 2021, 910–916.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Brewer, Holly 1964– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  2. ^ "Holly Brewer". history.umd.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  3. ^ Brewer, Holly (1997). "Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia: "Ancient Feudal Restraints" and Revolutionary Reform". The William and Mary Quarterly. 54 (2): 307–346. doi:10.2307/2953276. ISSN 0043-5597.
  4. ^ "Cappon Winners, 1965-2019". OIEAHC. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  5. ^ a b "Clifford Prize Winners". Asecsarchives. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  6. ^ Taylor, Alan (2013). The internal enemy : slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832 (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-393-24142-6. OCLC 916042107.
  7. ^ a b "By Birth or Consent | Holly Brewer". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  8. ^ "Book Award | The Order of the Coif". Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  9. ^ "Cromwell Book Prize | American Society for Legal History". 2018-11-21. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  10. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Holly Brewer". Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  11. ^ Brewer, Holly (2017-10-01). "Slavery, Sovereignty, and "Inheritable Blood": Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery". The American Historical Review. 122 (4): 1038–1078. doi:10.1093/ahr/122.4.1038. ISSN 0002-8762.
  12. ^ "Aravamudan Prize Winners". Asecsarchives. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  13. ^ "Does Locke's entanglement with slavery undermine his philosophy? | Aeon Essays". Aeon. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  14. ^ Brewer, Holly (2008-04-28), Grossberg, Michael; Tomlins, Christopher (eds.), "The Transformation of Domestic Law", The Cambridge History of Law in America (1 ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 288–323, doi:10.1017/chol9780521803052.010, ISBN 978-1-139-05417-1, retrieved 2021-12-20
  15. ^ "About Our Editors | American Society for Legal History". Retrieved 2021-12-20.

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