Jennifer Luff

Jennifer Luff is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University (Krieger School of Arts & Sciences). She specializes in the history of politics and labor in the US and UK, focusing on civil liberties, state repression, and working-class conservatism. Her research explores intersections between labor movements and governmental counter-subversive policies.

Previously, she held roles as Associate Professor of History at Durham University and Research Director at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative. She has held fellowships at NYU, UCLA, and the Newberry Library. Her current project examines Britain’s interwar civil service Communist exclusion program, detailed in her 2017 article on comparative political policing.

Her work has been published in leading journals including Diplomatic History, the American Historical Review, and the Journal of Contemporary History. She investigates topics such as American trade union anticommunism, workplace surveillance, and World War I espionage.