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Meg Jacobs

b. 1969

American historian

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About Meg Jacobs

Born 1969. Meg Jacobs is an American historian and university teacher.

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

Meg Jacobs, Julian E. Zelizer, Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief History with Documents, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010.

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Important facts

Birth century
Education
Cornell University, University of Virginia
Employers
Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Ellis W. Hawley Prize

Family & relationships

Spouse
Julian Zelizer

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Meg Jacobs's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Meg Jacobs?

American historian

When was Meg Jacobs born?

Meg Jacobs was born on 5 June 1969.

What is Meg Jacobs's occupation?

Meg Jacobs is a historian and university teacher.

What nationality is Meg Jacobs?

Meg Jacobs is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Meg Jacobs

· Wikidata: Q27733811

· DBpedia: Meg Jacobs

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