Jill Lepore Bio | Wiki
Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She serves as the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. Jill writes about American history, law, literature, and politics.
She serves as the host of the podcast, The Last Archive. A prize-winning professor, Jill teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Much of her scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the history and technology of evidence.
Jill Lepore Age
Jill was born on August 27, 1966, in West Boylston, Massachusetts, United States. She is 55 years old.
Jill Lepore Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Jill Lepore Family
She was born and raised in West Boylston, a small town outside Worcester, Massachusetts by her parents. Jill’s father was a junior high school principal and her mother was an art teacher. She holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity.
Jill Lepore Husband | Married | Partner
Jill is married to her loving husband Timothy Leek. Together, the couple shares three sons and resides in Massachusetts.
Jill Lepore Education
She participated in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at Tufts University, starting as a math major. Eventually, Jill left ROTC and changed her major to English. She earned her B.A. in English in three years in 1987.
After graduating from Tufts, she had a temporary job working as a secretary at the Harvard Business School before returning to school. Jill received 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, where she specialized in the history of early America.
Jill Lepore These Truths
Her book These Truths: A History of the United States (2018), is an international bestseller, named one of Time magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of the decade. A textbook edition will be published in August 2022.
The book traces American politics, law, journalism, and technology from the Age of Discovery through the present day, focusing on America’s founding truths and their role in uniting, dividing, and transforming the nation.
Jill Lepore Books
-If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
-This America: The Case for the Nation
-These Truths: A History of the United States
-Joe Gould’s Teeth.
-The Secret History of Wonder Woman
-Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
-The Story of America: Essays on Origins. Princeton, N.J.
-The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
-The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle Over American History
Jill Lepore Podcast | The Last Archive
She is the host of the podcast, The Last Archive. The Last Archive is a show about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days as if we don’t know anything at all anymore. The show is driven by host Jill’s work as a historian, uncovering the secrets of the past the way a detective might.
Jill Lepore New Yorker
Jill is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. On June 23, 2014, issue Jill criticized the concept of creative destruction, associated with Austrian-born political economist Joseph Schumpeter. The response of one of those whose work she discusses, fellow Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen, was that her article was “a criminal act of dishonesty—at Harvard, of all places”
Some of Jill’s colleagues at The New Yorker include:
Molly Fischer – staff writer
Liana Finck – cartoonist
Lauren Collins – staff writer
Isaac Chotiner – staff writer
Emily Flake – cartoonist
Liza Donnelly – cartoonist
Jennifer Gonnerman – staff writer
Jill Lepore Harvard
Jill is the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History at Harvard University where she joined in 2003. She serves as a Professor of History and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library. Previously, Jill and Kamensky had co-founded an online history journal called Common-place.
She holds an endowed chair and teaches American political history. Jill focuses on missing evidence in historical records and articles. In February 2022, she was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter to The Harvard Crimson defending Professor John Comaroff, who had been found to have violated the university’s sexual and professional conduct policies.
Jill Lepore Book Of Ages
Her book, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin became published on Oct 1, 2013. From one of the most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.
Jill Lepore The Name Of War | King Philip’s War
The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity was published o Sep 21, 2009. The war’s brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill makes clear that it was after the war—and because of it—that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones.
Jill Lepore Elon Musk
BBC Radio 4 broadcast Jill’s series, Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket, untangling the strange, sci-fi roots of extreme capitalism. The US version is available from Pushkin Industries.
Jill Lepore Salary
She serves as a staff writer at The New Yorker, therefore, she earns a decent income. Jill’s average salary is $81,540 per year.
Jill Lepore Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Jill’s estimated net worth is $856,790.
To Whom Is Jill Lepore Married
Jill is married to her loving husband Timothy Leek. Together, the couple shares three sons and resides in Massachusetts.