Annette Gordon-Reed

Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History

Professor of History

Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Research Interests

• American Legal History
• Politics and Law in the Early American Republic (1776-1828)
• American Slavery (1619-1865)
• Jefferson and Slavery at Monticello

Education

• Dartmouth College A.B. (with High Distinction) 1981, History
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1984

Appointments

• Professor of Law, New York Law School
• Professor of History, Rutgers University
• Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History, 2009
• Professor of Law, 2010
• Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2010
• Professor of History, FAS, 2010
• Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, 2012

Representative Publications

• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008)
• Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History (Oxford, 2002)
• Vernon Can Read: A Memoir, with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (Public Affairs, 2001)
• Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1997)

Bibliography

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