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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, the at the University of Texas-Austin, and the . He 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 has edited several volumes, including for Bloomsbury Academic, and (co-edited with Scott Sowerby) for Boydell & Brewer.

He edits the monograph series ‘’ for Bloomsbury Academic with Prof. Beat Kümin (Warwick Univ., UK). He is a founding member of the international research group (1650-1850) and a member of the Quebec-based. He is currently working on a handbook of the history of the European Enlightenment and a multi-volume collection of essays on the history of sociability in the early modern world. His additional publications on the history of early modern taste have ranged from studies of art auctions and connoisseurship to gastronomy and food writing.