Holly Brewer
Associate Professor
Ph.D., UCLA 1994
253 Withers Hall
Phone: (919) 515-3715
Email: holly_brewer@ncsu.edu
Website: faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/brewer
Dr. Brewer is on leave 2009-2010
Personal Introduction
Holly Brewer teaches Early American History, intellectual/cultural/legal history, and comparative history, primarily with Britain at NC State. She is currently working on several projects, including a book on the ideological origins of slavery in early Virginia and the British Empire, a book on the transformation of the common law of domestic relations in the early modern period in England and America, and a comparative study of the transformation of crime and punishment in England, France and America during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, which was published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and UNC Press (2005), won the 2006 J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association as well as the 2006 Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History, and the 2008 Biennial Book Prize of the Order of the Coif from the American Association of Law Schools. She also won three prizes for her article "Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia" (1997), including the 1998 Clifford Prize for the best article on any aspect of 18th century studies and the 2000 Douglass Adair Memorial Award, for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in the past six years.
Interests
Early American, Intellectual, Cultural, Legal History
