Jacob Saliba

Teaching Assistant

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Jacob Saliba

M.A., Ph.D Candidate

Contact

Stokes Hall South 344

Email: jacob.saliba@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 & II

Asia in the World I & 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 of modern European thought with a focus on politics, philosophy, and religion in twentieth-century France. My dissertation, “The Discovery of the Sacred in Interwar France: From Contestation to Cooperation, 1919-1941,” examines the emergence of mutual intellectual projects and hybrid community bonds that formed between a network of Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and feminist thinkers between World War I and World War II. Major themes include phenomenology, Hegelianism, Thomism, political theology, and human rights. My scholarship has appeared in the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, the Catholic Historical Review, European History Quarterly, and others.  

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 as Primary Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. 

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, 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 College (2022)

Publications

Authority, History, and Political Theology: Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard S.J., translation of collected works and correspondence. Bloomsbury Press (forthcoming, 2026).

Thinking God Otherwise: Introduction to the Work of Emmanuel Falque (translation of Penser Dieu autrement: Introduction à l’œuvre d’Emmanuel Falque by Alain Saudan). Wipf and Stock Press - Cascade Books imprint (forthcoming, 2026). 

“The History behind Henri de Lubac’s Concept of the Supernatural: Nouvelle théologie between Maurice Blondel and Étienne Gilson,” The Catholic Historical Review Vol. 111, no. 1 (Winter 2025).

“Responding to the Global Crisis:  Jacques Maritain, World War II, and New York's École Libre,” Journal of Global Catholicism Vol. 9, no.1 (2024).

“Sartre and the Phenomenology of Pain: A Closer Look,” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy Vol. 31, no.1 (2024).

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