Julia Rudolph

Julia Rudolph is a Professor of History at North Carolina State University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She specializes in early modern Europe, with focuses on legal history, gender history, and intellectual history in eighteenth-century Britain and its empire. She holds a B.A. in Classics and Renaissance Studies from Brown University and a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.

Her research integrates law, economics, gender studies, and colonial studies. Current projects explore mortgage law's role in the British Empire, linking property rights, enslavement, and financial systems. She has authored prizewinning works on gender and evidence law, and her interdisciplinary approach addresses race, capitalism, and empire.

Rudolph has received the Guggenheim Fellowship and Mellon Foundation grants. She teaches legal history at Duke University School of Law and co-directed a research seminar at the Folger Institute. Active in organizations like the Royal Historical Society and Selden Society, she also contributed to the Clases & Controversies podcast discussing Haiti's odious debt.

Awards include the Walter D. Love Prize (2009) and Judith R. Walkowitz Prize (2020). Her advising spans topics in gender, race, print culture, and Irish law. Grants include NEH support and the Golieb Fellowship.