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. Other work by Professor Hadden has appeared in the journals The Cambrian Law Review (2002), Massachusetts Legal History (2003), and Perspectives (2003). Her published essays have appeared in Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History (ed. Bellesiles, 1999), Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South (ed. Neiman and Waldrep, 2001), and Transformations in American Legal History (ed. Hamilton and Brophy, 2009). She is particularly proud of her contribution to the first volume of the Cambridge History of Law in America (ed. Tomlins and Grossberg, 2008).

She is currently working on several projects that connect history with law and legal cultures. Her book on eighteenth-century urban legal cultures has received financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other sponsors. Her essay on arbitration in Charleston in the 1790s will appear in The Southern Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century (eds. Jonathan Wells and Jennifer Green, forthcoming LSU Press), and a co-authored article (with Patricia Minter) on Henry Marchant's legal tourism will appear in the Law and History Review in 2010. She is co-editing the Blackwell Companion to American Legal History with Al Brophy (forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell 2011) and an essay collection with Patricia Minter (forthcoming, 2011) that will include essays by 20 scholars working in Southern legal history.