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Brian Cowan is a historian of early modern Britain and Europe. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham University and the at the University of Texas-Austin, and has previously taught at the University of Sussex (UK) and Yale University (USA). He is the author of , (Yale University Press, 2005), which was awarded the by the Canadian Historical Association in 2006. His second book, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) uses book history to provide a new understanding of the most important political trial of the eighteenth century. He is a member of the Multigraph Collective responsible for, (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2018) which studies eighteenth and nineteenth-century print culture as part of a multi-media environment. 

He edits the monograph series ‘’ for Bloomsbury Academic with Prof. Beat Kümin (Warwick Univ., UK). He is currently president of the board of directors for the international research group (1650-1850) and a member of the Quebec-based. He is currently working on the politics of celebrity in Britain from the regicidal revolution to the American revolution, and is editing A Cultural History of Fame in the Enlightenment (1650-1770) for Bloomsbury Academic. His additional publications on the history of early modern taste have ranged from studies of art auctions and connoisseurship to gastronomy and food writing.