Faculty
Honor Sachs
Ph.D. in History -
University of Wisconsin
Honor Sachs received her Ph.D. in History from the
University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she specialized in the study
of race, gender and legal culture in early America. Her forthcoming
book, Chosen Land: The Legal Creation of White Manhood on the
Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier explores the origins and legacies
of legal ideas that shaped frontier expansion during the early decades
of nationhood. In 2006, she became the Cassius Marcellus Clay
Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University with the History Department and
the Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. She has
published articles on the relationships between law and history, gender
and narrative, and archives and historical memory and has taught
courses on constitutional and legal history at the University of
Wisconsin – Madison and Yale University. She is currently a research
affiliate of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance and Abolition.
Recent Publications
Chosen Land: The Legal Creation of White Manhood on the
Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
