Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Holly Brewer
Associate Professor, Department of History
North Carolina State University
Holly Brewer teaches Early American History at North Carolina State University. She has 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. She authored a book, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (and UNC Press) in March 2005.
Scholarship by Holly Brewer
Erasing Colonial and Revolutionary History from North Carolina High Schools: the Problem and Solutions
Dr. Holly Brewer, Professor of History at North Carolina State University, addressed the John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society Luncheon on March 17, 2008. The topic of her talk was "Erasing Colonial and Revolutionary History from North Carolina High Schools: the Problem and Solutions." View Professor Brewer’s speech in its entirety here.
She has 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.
Professor Brewer authored a book, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (and UNC Press) in March 2005. For her work in this volume, Dr. Brewer is the recipient of the Order of the Coif Book Award, as well as the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation prize from the American Society for Legal History, and the Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association. See more about her book here.
Order of the Coif Book Award to Faculty Affiliate Holly Brewer
Faculty Affiliate and NC State Associate Professor Holly Brewer is author of "By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority."
Professor Brewer was recently awarded the 2007 Order of the Coif Book Award for this publication. Read more about her book by clicking here.
Mary L. Dudziak wrote about the award on the Legal History Blog.
The award is given biennially, and has been awarded in the past to Grant Gilmore, John Rawls, Lawrence Friedman and other leading scholars. Professor Brewer is the youngest awardee. Brewer previously picked up the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation prize from the American Society for Legal History and the Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association. Congratulations!
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
UNC Press; 2005; 390pp; $39.95 (cloth)
In her latest work, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, Holly Brewer explores the role of authority, inheritance, and the use of reason in the lives of American and British children in the 16th and 17th centuries. Lorri Glover of the University of Tennessee reviewed By Birth or Consent for Humanities and Social Scienes Online.