Eric Spierer

Eric Spierer

Dissertation

After graduating from Wesleyan, Eric worked as a paralegal in the Commercial Banking Group at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City, and then as a U.S. History teacher at The Derryfield School, his alma mater, in New Hampshire.  Ages ago he was a U.S. Senate Page in Washington, D.C.  His research interests include the English Levellers, the American Revolution, and the British Empire, as well as political philosophy, intellectual history, and historiography.  Eric's undergraduate honors thesis explored the meaning of loyalism during the American Revolution.  He currently lives in New York City and remains a proud native of New Hampshire.