{{Short description|American historian}} {{Infobox person | name = James Loeffler | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Harvard University | other_names = | occupation = Historian, professor, author | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''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''.<ref>{{cite web |title=James Loeffler |url=https://history.jhu.edu/directory/james-loeffler/ |website=jhu.edu |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=June 18, 2024}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2021 |title=CV |url=https://history.virginia.edu/sites/history.virginia.edu/files/Loeffler%20CV%20Full%20Aug%202021.pdf |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=University of Virginia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=CV |url=https://krieger.jhu.edu/history/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2023/08/Loeffler-CV-Full-June-2023.pdf |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Science}}</ref>{{better reference needed|date=December 2024}}
== Research == Loeffler is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies at Brandeis University.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fellows 2023–24 |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/israel-center/iais/2023-24-fellows.html |website=Schusterman Center for Israel Studies |publisher=Brandeis University |access-date=June 18, 2024}}</ref> His book ''Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century'' received the 2019 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association<ref>{{cite web |title=Dorothy Rosenberg Prize Recipients |url=https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/dorothy-rosenberg-prize-recipients |website=historians.org |publisher=American Historical Association |access-date=June 18, 2024}}</ref> and the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Award Recipients |url=https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/professional-development/fellowships-and-awards/ajs-award-recipients |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Association for Jewish Studies}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * {{Cite book |title=The Law of Strangers. Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2019 |isbn=9781107140417 |location=Cambridge |language=en}} * {{Cite book |title=Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300217247 |location=Yale |publication-date=2018-05-04 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |title=The Most Musical Nation. Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300198300 |location=Yale |publication-date=2013-09-10 |language=en}}
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==External links== * {{official|https://jamesloeffler.com}}
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