Martin Jay

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Martin Jay
Jay in 2014
Born	Martin Evan Jay (1944-05-04) May 4, 1944 (age 80) New York City, New York, US
Other names	Martin E. Jay
Spouse	Catherine Gallagher (m. c. 1973)
Academic background
Alma mater	Union College Harvard University
Thesis	Frankfurt School[1] (1971)
Doctoral advisor	H. Stuart Hughes
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Intellectual history
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students	Peter Gordon Dirk Moses Samuel Moyn
Main interests	German intellectual history critical theory visual culture
Notable works	The Dialectical Imagination (1973)

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

He is currently the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.