Cynthia Herrup is an American historian of early modern British law who holds the position of Professor of History and Law at the University of Southern California. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly
Cynthia Herrup's writings center primarily on the social history of criminal law, but she also touches upon the historical impact of gender and sexuality. Her first book, The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England, examined how communities without lawyers made decisions about law enforcement—it postulated that people as well as lawyers were important in the history of law. Her second book, A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1999), used a notorious trial to explore how law reflected tensions between genders and generations—it is also a significant book in the history of societal attitudes towards homosexuality. Societal attitudes towards homosexuality vary greatly in different cultures and different historical periods as do attitudes toward sexual desire activity and relationships in general
She has held many fellowships, including those from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research Library on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. The National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (or The Huntington) is an educational and research institution established by Henry E
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Career
Cynthia Herrup edited the Journal of British Studies from 1991 to 1996. The publication of the North American Conference on British Studies The Journal of British Studies is an Academic journal published by the University of From 1995 to 1997, she served on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual political and cultural History. Herrup was also president of the North American Conference on British Studies from 2003 to 2005.
Until 2005, she served as William Kenneth Boyd Professor of History and Law at Duke University. Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
Awards
While teaching at Duke University in 1988, Cynthia Herrup was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who
Bibliography
- The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England (1987)
- A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1999)
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