She is an Associate Professor of Religion at University of Southern California (USC) and served as USC's Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies from 2016 to 2019.
[1][2][3] She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco,[4][5][6] which won the 2016 Baron Book prize, awarded by the American Academy for Jewish Research for best first book in Judaic studies.
[7] Marglin is the daughter of Smith College anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Harvard economist Stephen A.
[8] From 2006 to 2007, she was a Fulbright Fellow studying the history of Jews in North Africa at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
[8] She earned her doctorate in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University.