Holly White

Adjunct Professor, History

Office: Blair 365
Email: [[hnstevens]]
Regional Areas of Research: Vast Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Childhood and Youth; Age; Gender; Family

Bio

Holly N.S. White has a Ph.D. in American History from William & Mary (2017). She is a legal, social, and cultural historian who specializes in the history of childhood and youth, age, gender, and family in Vast Early America and the early United States. She is author of Constructing American Childhood: Age-based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States (University of Virginia Press, 2026) and the co-editor of Engaging Children in Vast Early America (Routledge, 2024)

Currently, she serves as co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. This fall, as a 25-26 William & Mary Strategic Cultural Partnership Faculty Fellow, she will begin work on two projects which examine the role of children in the American Revolution: a book length work and "The Children of the American Revolution Project" (CARP), a public history initiative for K-6 students.