Meg Jacobs

Meg Jacobs
Nationality American
Spouse(s) Julian Zelizer
Awards Ellis W. Hawley Prize
Academic background
Alma mater Cornell University,
University of Virginia
Academic work
Discipline History
Sub-discipline American economic history
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Princeton University

Meg Jacobs is an American Historian. She won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize.

Life

She graduated from Cornell University,[1] and the University of Virginia. She was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a resident scholar at Princeton University.[2]

Family

In 2012, she married fellow historian and political commentator Julian Zelizer in a Jewish ceremony in Metuchen, New Jersey presided over by the groom's father, rabbi Gerald L. Zelizer.[3] 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 1-4008-2582-2.
  • 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. [4][5]

References

  1. "Meg Jacobs - Faculty - Department of History - Columbia University". history.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  2. "Meg Jacobs". Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  3. "Meg Jacobs, Julian Zelizer - Weddings". The New York Times. 2012-09-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  4. Levinson, Marc (2016-05-05). "When America Ran on Empty". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  5. "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
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