John Jeffries Martin


John Jeffries Martin is an American academic. He is the chair of the history department at Duke University, and the author of several books.

Early life

John Jeffries Martin grew up in St. Simons, Georgia and attended St. Paul's School, a boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire. He earned a PhD from Harvard University in 1982.

Career

Martin was the chair of the history department at Trinity University from 2004 to 2007. He is a history professor at Duke University, where he is the chair of the history department.
Martin is the author of two books about Venice and the Italian Renaissance. He has edited three more books about the same topics. In Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City, Martin writes about the European Protestants who moved to Venice and were falsely accused of heresy by Venetians in the 16th century. Reviewing it for The American Historical Review, Professor William Monter of Northwestern University described it as a "useful, readable and original book."

Works