Jennifer Luff is a historian of politics and labor in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her research interests include the history of civil liberties and state repression, comparative state development, political organizing, and working-class conservatism. Her books include Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties Between the World Wars (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), and What Works for Workers: Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers (Russell Sage, 2014), co-edited with Joseph A. McCartin and Ruth Milkman. Her research articles have been published in American Historical Review, Diplomatic History, Journal of Contemporary History, and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History.

Jennifer Luff has been awarded research fellowships from Princeton University, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies; New York University, Center for the United States and the Cold War; University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment; and the Newberry Library.

She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the editorial board of the Journal of American Studies. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Previously she was Associate Professor in the History Department at Durham University, and Student Recommended Faculty Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She also served as research director at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

Jennifer Luff is completing a book on the origins of Britain’s secret security regime, which is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.