Jacob Saliba

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Jacob Saliba

M.A., Ph.D Candidate

Contact

Stokes Hall South 344

Email: salibaj@bc.edu

Education

  • M.A. Political Science, Boston College
  • B.A. Political Science and Economics (with Honors), Ohio Dominican University

Courses

Europe in the World I

Europe in the World II

Asia in the World I

Asia in the World II

African Diaspora and the World I

Research Interests

Intellectual History, Modern European History

Advisor

Julian Bourg

Curriculum Vitae

Department

History

Biography

I am an intellectual historian with聽a focus on the politics, ideas, and culture of twentieth-century聽France. My dissertation, 鈥淭he Discovery of the Sacred in Interwar France: From Contestation to Cooperation, 1919-1941鈥� examines and critically reflects on the mutual intellectual projects and hybrid community bonds that formed between a vibrant range of Catholic, Jewish, marxist, and feminist thinkers between World War I and World War II. At a time when fascism, anti-Semitism, and extremism was on the rise, my project explains how and why certain sites of dialogue and democratic exchange emerged amidst those very tensions. This research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Loyola University Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, and聽Boston College.聽 I have presented on themes of Catholicism, modern philosophy, and French intellectuals at the The American Catholic Historical Association,聽American Catholic Philosophical Association,聽The American Historical Association, and others.聽

Prior to my doctoral work, I received a BA in Political Science and Economics with honors from Ohio Dominican University and a MA in political philosophy from Boston College. I currently serve聽as primary editor of the聽Journal of the History of Ideas Blog.聽

Awards and Grants

Presidential Grant, American Catholic Historical Association (2024)

Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (2023-2024)

Research Fellowship, Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Loyola University,聽Chicago (Summer 2023)

Research Grant, The Cushwa Center at Notre Dame University (2023)

Donald J. White Excellence in Teaching Award, Boston College (2023)

Research Grant, The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston聽College (2022)

Publications

Review of Margaret Mullan,聽Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue: Gabriel Marcel鈥檚 Philosophy for Today听颈苍听Marcel Studies聽Vol. 6, 1 (2022).

Review of Thomas Brodie,聽German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945听颈苍听European History Quarterly聽Vol. 51, 4 (2021).

Review of Rodolphe Gasch茅,聽Locating Europe: A Figure, a Concept, an Idea?听颈苍听Phenomenological Reviews聽(October 2021).

鈥淲hy the Night Trilogy Matters.鈥� New York: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Press, 2018.

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