Charles Dickens, Cairo, and the Panic of 1837

Peter Pellizzari is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University. A native of Cary, Illinois, he received his B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2013. His primary research interests include the American Revolution, political economy, and trans-Atlantic slavery in early America, the early Caribbean, and the early modern British empire. He is also author of an article on the material culture of the Federalist Papers.