Sally Hadden

Associate Professor of History

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After receiving her B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1984, Sally Hadden earned her M.A., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard in 1985, 1989, and 1993 respectively. A specialist in American legal history prior to 1865 and eighteenth-century social/cultural history, Professor Hadden continues to work on topics that connect colonial history and legal history with broader themes in American life. Her first book, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, was published by Harvard University Press in 2001.

She is currently working on several projects connecting history with the law and legal cultures. Her chapter on slave law in the colonial era will appear in "Cambridge History of Law in America," edited by Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg (2007).