Jessica Marglin
Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization
Harvard University

Jessica Marglin earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016) and The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2022).  

Selected Publications

Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016).

The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2022).

“Extraterritoriality and Legal Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean,” Law and History Review, v. 39, no. 4 (2021), pp. 679-706. NYU Press.