Jennifer L. Weber

Office: 3633 Wescoe Hall
Phone: 864-9457
Email: jlweber@ku.edu

Assistant professor (Ph.D. Princeton, 2003; M.A., Princeton, 2000; M.A., California State University, Sacramento, 1998; B.S., Northwestern, 1984)

Dr. Weber is a native Californian who worked for several years in her home state as a journalist and political aide. Then she saw the light and went to graduate school. Her principal interest is the Civil War, especially the seams where political, social, and military history come together. Other fields that attract her attention include 19th century America and war and society. Her book, Copperheads, about antiwar Democrats in the Civil War North, was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. To read an interview about the book, click here. She is currently working on a children's book about the battle of Gettysburg, to be published by National Geographic; a collection of essays in honor of her graduate adviser, James M. McPherson, to be published by the University of Virginia Press; and a monograph comparing conscription and its consequences in the Union and the Confederacy. Professor Weber is co-director of the Hall Center's seminar on Peace, War & Global Change. In addition to her work at KU, she serves on the advisory panel for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. In her spare time she enjoys sports, music, movies, novels, and traveling. Dr. Weber is an avid follower of current events and politics—which is even more fun than sports because it matters.