James Loeffler

James Loeffler is an American historian. He holds the Felix Posen Professorship in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University and is co-editor of AJS Review.

Education

Loeffler studied social studies at Harvard University, graduating with an A.B. magna cum laude in 1996. He then studied history at Columbia University, earning an M.A. in 2000 and a Ph.D. with distinction in 2006. Loeffler did postgraduate studies in Jewish religious and political thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies.

Research

Loeffler is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies at Brandeis University. His book Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century received the 2019 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association and the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies.