Meg Jacobs is a historian of U.S. political history and political economy. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the

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and in the Department of History at

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Academics

Jacobs graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

(BA) and the

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(MA, PhD). She was a professor at the

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, and is a resident scholar at

. Her research has centered on the

political economy Political or comparative economy is a branch of political science and economics studying economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and national economies) and their governance by political systems (e.g. law, institutions, and government). Wi ...

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 The Ellis W. Hawley Prize is an annual book award by the Organization of American Historians for the best historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the A ...

for the best historical study on

U.S. politics In the United States, politics functions within a framework of a constitutional federal democratic republic with a presidential system. The three distinct branches share powers: Congress, which forms the legislative branch, a bicameral legi ...

. 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

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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, . *

References

External links

The Energy Crisis and the End of American Liberalism
''slate'', April 2016
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
Meg Jacobs, ''videolectures'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Meg 21st-century American historians Cornell University alumni University of Virginia alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty Princeton University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people)