Farah Peterson
Farah Peterson is a Professor of Law at The University of Chicago. She earned a PhD in American history from Princeton and a JD from Yale. Before teaching, she clerked on the Supreme Court and practiced law. Her scholarship, published in the nation's top law journals, focuses on major problems in the Early Republic. Her nonfiction, including personal essays, art criticism, and social commentary, has appeared in Ploughshares, The American Scholar, and The Best American Magazine Writing and is forthcoming in The Atlantic. Her works were selected as Notable Essays in the Best American Essays in 2018 and 2022 and nominated for an Ellie Award in 2021. She has poetry in Rattle and forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review and fiction forthcoming in Black Warrior Review.
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