Jennifer D. Luff is a historian of twentieth-century politics and state development in the United States and the United Kingdom and an associate teaching professor of history at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Political Science.
[1] She was awarded a fellowship from Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies for academic year 2024-2025.
[2] Luff received her BA in English literature from Ohio State University in 1992 and her Ph.D. in American studies from the College of William and Mary in 2005.
[3] From 2009 to 2013 Luff served as the founding research director of Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
"[10] Her current research examines Britain's secret programme to bar suspected Communists from government service between 1921 and 1950.