Jessica K. Lowe

History, PhD candidate

jlowe@Princeton.EDU
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Jessica Lowe studies eighteenth and nineteenth century American history, particularly American legal history.  She specializes in the history of crime and punishment and of the American south, and is writing a dissertation on liberty, class, honor, and criminal law in Virginia after the American Revolution. 

Jessica graduated from Harvard Law School in 2002.  While at Harvard, she taught introductory macro- and micro-economics for two years in Harvard's Economics department.  She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, where she majored in Economics and Political and Social Thought.  She studied Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School for a year after graduation.

Before coming to Princeton for her graduate education, Jessica worked as a practicing attorney.  She clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and in the District of Connecticut, and also practiced appellate litigation with Jones Day in Washington, D.C.  At Jones Day, she worked on a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as complex litigation matters.