Department of History

Jessica Marglin is the Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of religion, Law, and History at the University of California-Dornsife. Research Expertise: Jews and Muslims in modern North Africa and the Mediterranean, legal history, Non-Muslims in the Islamic world, and Mediterranean Studies.

Jennifer Luff, an associate teaching professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins, is a historian of politics and labour in the US and the UK, with special interests in the history of civil liberties and state repression, political organizing, and working-class conservatism.

Kathleen López is an associate professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History at Rutgers University. Research Expertise: Latin American and Caribbean History, Asians in Latin America and the Caribbean, Race and Ethnicity in the Americas, Diaspora and International Migration, Latinx History, and Public Humanities.

Political and Moral Thought Seminar with associate professorJapa Pallikkathayil (Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh).

Political and Moral Thought Seminar with Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)Gilman 308, 4:45pm-6:15pm, November 10, 2025

Nicole Archambeau is an associate professor, in the History Department, at Colorado State University. Research Expertise: Medieval history, Mediterranean Europe, and Social History of Healing and Medicine.

Political and Moral Thought Seminar with Alex Haskins (Wheaton College)

N. D. B. Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Research Expertise: Twentieth-century America, racism, capitalism, urban and suburban history, and African diaspora.