Jessica Marglin is Associate Professor of Religion, History, and Law, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016) and the co-editor, with Matthias Lehmann, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2020).
(With apologies to friendship, which I will studiously ignore)
Nineteenth-century Europe served as the breeding ground of nationalism in a way that has profoundly shaped our world since.