Martin Jay (American intellectual historian) Add a review

Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connect history with Frankfurt School critical theory, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography.

He is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at UC Berkeley, where he taught for 45 years, co-founded (with Judith Butler) the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory (2007–2016). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996) and American Philosophical Society (2019), received the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction (2018) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Bard College (2018).

Conferences on his work were held at the University of Wrocław (2010), the University of California, Berkeley (2016), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (2018), Queen Mary College, London (2018), and the University of Pennsylvania (2024). A Festschrift, The Modernist Imagination, was published in 2009.