Amanda Hollis-Brusky

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Amanda L. Hollis-Brusky is an American constitutional law scholar who specializes in the politics of the U.S. Supreme Court and the conservative legal movements of originalism and textualism. [1] She is the chair of the politics department at Pomona College in Claremont, California. [1]

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Early life and education

Hollis-Brusky majored in political science and philosophy at Boston University, graduating in 2003. [1] She then pursued a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, which she earned in 2010. [1] Her dissertation was titled "The Federalist Society and the Structural Constitution: An Epistemic Community at Work". [1]

Career

Hollis-Brusky joined the politics department at Pomona College in 2011. In 2014, she won the Wig Award, the college's highest faculty honor, in recognition of her teaching. [1] [2] She is frequently consulted by media outlets on Supreme Court issues. [1] In 2015, she interviewed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, [3] and in 2020 she interviewed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder [4] and testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on judicial independence. [5]

Her first book, Ideas with Consequences, about the Federalist Society, won the 2016 C. Herman Pritchett award, the American Political Science Association's award for best legal studies book. [6]

Her second book, Separate but Faithful, was written with Joshua C. Wilson and focuses on the Christian conservative legal movement. Reviewer Daniel Bennett, writing in Perspectives on Politics , called it "a detailed and methodologically impressive account" that uses "an innovative theoretical framework" and "has the potential to wield lasting influence". [7]

She is an editor of The Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post . [8]

Personal life

Hollis-Brusky lives in Claremont, California. [9]

Books

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