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- LEPORE, Jill 1966– PERSONAL: Born August 27, 1966, in Worcester, MA; married Timothy Leek.
Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University [1] and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics.
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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her latest book isThis America: The Case for the Nation (2019). Her 2018 book, These Truths: A History of the United States, was a New York Times bestseller, and is also being published around the world, transl...
Lepore received a B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995. She joined the Harvard History Department in 2003 and was Chair of the History and Literature Program in 2005-10, 2012, and 2014. In 2012, she was named H...
Much of Lepore's scholarship explores absences and asymmetries of evidence in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence and of privacy. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, the humanities, and American political history. (On teaching the writing of hist...
Lepore has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005, writing about American history, law, literature, and politics. In 2019 she was named a National Magazine Award finalist, for essays and criticism, as well as a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, for criticism. Recent essays include the role of polls, facts, parties. and the conventions in the 2016 el...
From 2011-2013, Lepore was a Visiting Scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Among her other scholarly and public lectures, she has delivered the F. E. L. Priestley Memorial Lectures in the History of Ideas at the University of Toronto (2018), the George Bancroft Memorial Lecture at the United States Naval Academy (2017), the Richard Leopold Lectur...
Jan 7, 2019 · The Harvard historian and New Yorker writer talks about her book 'These Truths,' the Me Too movement, and Trump's version of populism. She also discusses her views on the Constitution, originalism, and the founders.
An unlikely historian, Lepore is a former field hockey player who was admitted to Tufts on an ROTC scholarship. By her own reckoning, she was the first member of her family to go away to college, and then she “just kinda fell into history.”
Sep 15, 2014 · Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman’s real origin story: she was a utopian feminist creation, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love.
- Jill Lepore
LEPORE, Jill 1966–PERSONAL: Born August 27, 1966, in Worcester, MA; married Timothy Leek. Education: Tufts University, B.A., 1987; University of Michigan, M.A., 1990; Yale University, M.Phil, 1993, Ph.D., 1995.
Mar 6, 2014 · She now lives in Cambridge with her husband and three sons. As untraditionally as her career unfolded, Lepore says she was sure of one thing. “I always just wanted to be a writer, not ...
