Jessica Lepler

Jessica Lepler is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in the intersection of culture, capitalism, and diplomacy in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World. Her research explores financial panics, transatlantic economic networks, and the cultural construction of commercial identity.

• Education: B.A. in History and Religious Studies from Tulane University; M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Brandeis University.

Her publications focus on topics such as:

• 19th-century financial panics (1819, 1837)
• Cultural economy during crises
• Transatlantic perceptions of American sectionalism
• Public history and commemoration
• Visual representations of economic hardship

She has received competitive research grants from institutions like Harvard University (2023) and the American Antiquarian Society (2009). Her teaching spans courses on:

• Historical thinking
• Animal history
• Early American history
• Capitalism
• American thought

Her work engages with interdisciplinary methodologies to examine how economic anxieties shaped cultural and diplomatic landscapes.