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{{Short description|American historian}}
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'''Meg Jacobs''' is a historian of U.S. political history and political economy. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the ] and in the ] at ].
'''Meg Jacobs''' is an American Historian. She won the ].
== Academics ==
⚫ Jacobs graduated from ] (BA) and the ] (MA, PhD).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Jacobs.html|title=Meg Jacobs - Faculty - Department of History - Columbia University|website=history.columbia.edu|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> She was a professor at the ], and is a resident scholar at ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/megj|title=Meg Jacobs|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref>


Her research has centered on the ] and the development of twentieth-century politics, such as the ]. In 2006, she won the ] ] for the best historical study on ]. 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).<ref>{{cite web |title=Meg Jacobs |url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/meg-jacobs |website=Radcliffe Institute}}</ref>
== Life ==
⚫ She graduated from ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Jacobs.html|title=Meg Jacobs - Faculty - Department of History - Columbia University|website=history.columbia.edu|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> and the ]. She was a professor at the ], and is a resident scholar at ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/megj|title=Meg Jacobs|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref>


== Family == == Family ==
In 2012, she married ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/fashion/weddings/meg-jacobs-julian-zelizer-weddings.html|title=Meg Jacobs, Julian Zelizer - Weddings|date=2012-09-02|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> In 2012, she married fellow historian and political commentator ] at the ] in ] presided over by the groom's father, Gerald.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/fashion/weddings/meg-jacobs-julian-zelizer-weddings.html|title=Meg Jacobs, Julian Zelizer - Weddings|date=2012-09-02|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> Her mother-in-law is ], ].


== Works == == Works ==
* {{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xWNPAQAAQBAJ|title=Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America|date=20 February 2007|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4378-7}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWNPAQAAQBAJ|title=Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America|date=20 February 2007|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4378-7}}
* {{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jNKUMNqY64MC&pg=PA250|title=The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History|date=10 January 2009|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=1-4008-2582-2|pages=250–|editor1=Meg Jacobs|editor2=William J. Novak|editor3=Julian E. Zelizer}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNKUMNqY64MC&pg=PA250|title=The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History|date=10 January 2009|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-2582-0|pages=250–|editor1=Meg Jacobs|editor2=William J. Novak|editor3=Julian E. Zelizer}}
* 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 * 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}}.
* {{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gHmfCgAAQBAJ|title=Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s|date=19 April 2016|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-71489-5}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-america-ran-on-empty-1462487519|title=When America Ran on Empty|last=Levinson|first=Marc|date=2016-05-05|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/sweet-lamb-of-heaven-imagine-me-gone-panic-at-the-pump-and-dark-territory-briefly-noted|title=Briefly Noted Book Reviews|website=The New Yorker|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHmfCgAAQBAJ|title=Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s|date=19 April 2016|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-71489-5}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-america-ran-on-empty-1462487519|title=When America Ran on Empty|last=Levinson|first=Marc|date=2016-05-05|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/sweet-lamb-of-heaven-imagine-me-gone-panic-at-the-pump-and-dark-territory-briefly-noted|title=Briefly Noted Book Reviews|magazine=The New Yorker|date=18 July 2016 |access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 16:51, 8 April 2024

American historian
Meg Jacobs
NationalityAmerican
OccupationHistorian
SpouseJulian Zelizer
AwardsEllis W. Hawley Prize (American Historical Association), Jeanne Rosselet Fellow (Harvard University)
Academic background
Alma materCornell University,
University of Virginia
ThesisThe Politics of Purchasing Power: Political Economy, Consumption Politics, and State-Building, 1909-1959 (1998)
Doctoral advisorNelson Lichtenstein
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineU.S. political history, political economy, public policy
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology,
Princeton University
Notable worksPocketbook 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

References

  1. Jacobs, Meg (1998). The politics of purchasing power: Political economy, consumption politics, and state-building, 1909-1959 (PhD). OCLC 44185250. ProQuest 304459366.
  2. "Meg Jacobs - Faculty - Department of History - Columbia University". history.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  3. "Meg Jacobs". Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  4. "Meg Jacobs". Radcliffe Institute.
  5. "Meg Jacobs, Julian Zelizer - Weddings". The New York Times. 2012-09-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  6. Levinson, Marc (2016-05-05). "When America Ran on Empty". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  7. "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 18 July 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-02.

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