| Meg Jacobs | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse | Julian Zelizer |
| Awards | Ellis W. Hawley Prize (American Historical Association), Jeanne Rosselet Fellow (Harvard University) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Cornell University, University of Virginia |
| Thesis | The Politics of Purchasing Power: Political Economy, Consumption Politics, and State-Building, 1909-1959 (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nelson Lichtenstein |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | U.S. political history, political economy, public policy |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University |
| Notable works | Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005) |
| Website | |
Meg Jacobs is a historian of U.S. political history and political economy. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of History at Princeton University.
Academics
Jacobs graduated from Cornell University (BA) and the University of Virginia (MA, PhD). She was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a resident scholar at Princeton University.
Her research has centered on the political economy and the development of twentieth-century politics, such as the history of conservatism. In 2006, she won the American Historical Association's Ellis W. Hawley Prize for the best historical study on U.S. politics. Her major works include Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2006) and Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (2016).
Family
In 2012, she married fellow historian and political commentator Julian Zelizer at the Synagogue for the Arts in New York City presided over by the groom's father, Gerald. Her mother-in-law is economic sociologist, Viviana Rotman Zelizer.
Works
- Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton University Press. 20 February 2007. ISBN 978-1-4008-4378-7.
- Meg Jacobs; William J. Novak; Julian E. Zelizer, eds. (10 January 2009). The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Princeton University Press. pp. 250–. ISBN 978-1-4008-2582-0.
- Meg Jacobs, Julian E. Zelizer, Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief History with Documents, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010, ISBN 9780312488314.
- Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 19 April 2016. ISBN 978-0-374-71489-5.
References
- Jacobs, Meg (1998). The politics of purchasing power: Political economy, consumption politics, and state-building, 1909-1959 (PhD). OCLC 44185250. ProQuest 304459366.
- "Meg Jacobs - Faculty - Department of History - Columbia University". history.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- "Meg Jacobs". Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- "Meg Jacobs". Radcliffe Institute.
- "Meg Jacobs, Julian Zelizer - Weddings". The New York Times. 2012-09-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- Levinson, Marc (2016-05-05). "When America Ran on Empty". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 18 July 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
External links
- The Energy Crisis and the End of American Liberalism, slate, April 2016
- What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?, Meg Jacobs, videolectures
- Appearances on C-SPAN