Mary Sarah Bilder (b. October 11, 1965) is an American historian, and a winner of the 2016
Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.
It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...
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Life
She graduated from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison ...
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Harvard Law School, and
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
. She taught at
Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...
,
Harvard Law School, and teaches at
Boston College Law School
Boston College Law School (BC Law) is the law school of Boston College. It is situated on a wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles from the university's main campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
With approximately 800 stud ...
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Works
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* ''Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution''. University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Honors
*2016 - Bancroft Prize for ''Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention''
References
External links
*http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/160614
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Living people
Harvard Law School alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Columbia Law School faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American historians
Bancroft Prize winners
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