History

Hannah Farber

Associate Professor of History, Columbia University

Hannah Farber is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.

Professor Farber specializes in the political economy of colonial North America, the early American republic, and the Atlantic World.

Professor Hannah Farber specializes in the political economy of colonial North America, the early American republic, and the Atlantic World.

Her first book, Underwriters of the United States (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/UNC Press, 2021) explains how the transnational system of marine insurance, by governing the behavior of American merchants, influenced the establishment and early development of the American republic.

Her current book project is The American Lawsuit: Civil Litigation from the Revolution to Tocqueville.

Additional research interests include early American interest rates and the visual and material culture of American commerce.

Doctoral Dissertation: Underwritten States: Marine Insurance and the Making of Bodies Politic in America, 1622–1815.”.

Education

PhD History, University of California, Berkeley · BA History, Yale University

Topics

Political Economy of Colonial North America · The Early American Republic · The Atlantic World