Jessica Lepler

Jessica M. Lepler is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. Her first book The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis (Cambridge, 2013) won the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Her Brandeis University doctoral dissertation won the 2008 Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians. She teaches and publishes in the history of the early American republic, Atlantic history, history of animals, cultural history, and the history of capitalism. She is currently writing a book about 1820s quests for an interoceanic canal through Central America.