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Amanda Hollis-Brusky is a Professor of Politics at Pomona College, specializing in constitutional law, Supreme Court politics, and the conservative legal movement. She teaches courses on American politics, legal institutions, and constitutionalism. Her research examines how legal networks and ideas drive constitutional change, with a focus on conservative movements' impact on U.S. legal culture.
She earned her PhD in Political Science and holds dual appointments in political theory and law. Hollis-Brusky has published two major books: Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Oxford 2015), which won the APSA C. Herman Pritchett Award, and Separate but Faithful: The Christian Right’s Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture, supported by a National Science Foundation grant (2016-2019). Her work has been featured in media outlets like the New Yorker, Washington Post, and NPR.
She has served as an editor at The Monkey Cage blog (2020-2022), testified before Congress on judicial independence, and advised on the Showtime docuseries Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court. Hollis-Brusky is a two-time recipient of Pomona College’s highest teaching honor, the Wig Award (2014, 2022), and active in community roles like League of Women Voters leadership and Girl Scout Troop mentoring.
Her research portfolio spans over 15 peer-reviewed articles on topics including originalism, the impeachment power, and federalist legal strategy. She co-founded the Southern California Law and Social Science Forum (SoCLASS), hosting annual conferences on law-politics intersections.
