Matthew Frye Jacobson is a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

whose research concerns politics and race in all eras of History of the United States, American history. He is the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of African American Studies at Yale University. From 2012–2013 he was president of the American Studies Association.

Education

Jacobson earned a BA from Evergreen State College and an MA from Boston College. He received his doctorate in American Civilization in 1992 from Brown University.

Works

*''Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States'' (1995) *''Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race'' (1998) *''Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917'' (2000) *''Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America'' (2005) *''What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America'' (with Gaspar González, 2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobson, Matthew Frye Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Brown University alumni Yale University faculty American male non-fiction writers Evergreen State College alumni Boston College alumni