Biography

Jessica Lowe studies eighteenth and nineteenth century U.S. legal history, with a special interest in the history of the American South, and is an Associate Professor at the Law School.

She is the author of Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She has held fellowships from, among others, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Princeton Center for Human Values, and most recently, the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ. She has a B.A. from the University of Virginia, a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.