Speakers
- Holly Brewer
- University of Maryland, Burke Chair of American History and Associate Professor
Holly Brewer is Burke Chair of American History and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is writing a book on the ideological origins of slavery in early America and the British Empire, tentatively titled Inheritable Blood: Slavery & Sovereignty in Early America and the British Empire, which earned a Guggenheim fellowship in 2014. She published part as “Slavery, Sovereignty and ‘Inheritable Blood’: Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery” in the American Historical Review (October 2017) and “Slavery-Entangled Philosophy” AEON, September 12, 2018. Her work situates the impact of political ideas in context across England and its American empire. Her first book traced the origin and impact of “democratical” ideas across the empire by examining debates about who can consent in theory and legal practice: Her first book was By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (Chapel Hill, 2005).