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Register here: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ejcwi… The Zoom link will be sent to all registrants before noon on October 3.
The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the J. Byron McCormick Society are pleased to invite you to an evening with Jill Lepore, affiliate professor of law and professor of American History at Harvard and staff writer at The New Yorker. Dr. Lepore will be interviewed in a conversational format by University of Arizona Law Professor Andrew Coan.
The J. Byron McCormick Society invites you to spend an evening with Jill Lepore. Dr. Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, and host of the podcast "The Last Archive." Her many books include "These Truths: A History of the United States" (2018), an international bestseller which was named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade. Her long-term research project is a history of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution. Lepore received a BA in English from Tufts University in 1987, an MA in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 1995. She joined the Harvard History Department in 2003. In 2012 she was named Harvard College Professor, in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award; the National Magazine Award; and, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize; and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, for the best non-fiction book on race. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
There is no cost to attend this event and it is open to the public. Register here: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ejcwi…
The Zoom link will be sent to registrants before noon on October 3.