Melissa Klapper

Melissa Rose Klapper is an American historian and storyteller. She is a professor of American and women's history at Rowan University. Klapper has authored books on American Jewish women's history and the history of children and youth in the United States.

Life Klapper completed a B.A. at Goucher College in 1995. She earned a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Her 2001 dissertation was titled "A Fair Portion of the World's Knowledge": Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920. Alice Kessler-Harris was Klapper's doctoral advisor. Klapper specializes in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Selected works