Ben Wexler is an academic pursuing a PhD in History at the Washington University in St. Louis. He works primarily on Jewish history in France and the German states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His research concerns the entanglement of religion, nationalism, and race/racism, the role of religion in economic thought, and the historical relationship between Jewish status and changing ideas of state and polity. In recent work, he studies the legal and symbolic association of Jews in France with colonial slavery, and the pertinence of this association to Jewish emancipation during the French Revolution. He has also written on contemporary antisemitism and Islamophobia for journalistic outlets like Dissent Magazine and The Canadian Jewish News.
