James Loeffler
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James Loeffler | |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupations | Historian, professor, author |
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.[1]
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.[2][3][better source needed]
Research
Loeffler is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies at Brandeis University.[4] His book Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century received the 2019 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association[5] and the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies.[6]