Mary Sarah Bilder

Mary Sarah Bilder (born October 11, 1965) is an American historian of constitutional law, and a winner of the 2016 Bancroft Prize.

Life She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard Law School, and Harvard University. She taught at Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School, and teaches at Boston College Law School.

Works

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