Sally Hadden is an American historian. She is an associate professor and the director of graduate studies in the history department at
Western Michigan University
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and the author of ''
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas.'' Her other books include ''Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History'' (co-editor with Patricia Minter;
University of Georgia Press, 2013), ''A Companion to American Legal History'' (co-editor with
Alfred Brophy
Alfred L. Brophy is an American legal scholar. He is retired. He held the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama from 2017 to 2019.
Early life
Brophy was born in Champaign, Illinois. He graduated summa cum laude from the ...
;
Wiley Blackwell
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, 2013), and ''Traveling the Beaten Path: Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822-1825'' (co-author with
David Durham and
Paul Pruitt; University of Alabama School of Law/University of Alabama Press, 2013).
Education
Hadden attended college at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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where she studied history and political science, graduating in 1984. She next attended
Harvard University
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, earning an MA (1985), JD (1989) and PhD (1993). At Harvard, she studied with
Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Pri ...
.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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