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 The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...

and in the Department of History at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

Academics

Jacobs graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

(BA) and the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, and is a resident scholar at

. Her research has centered on the

political economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

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 Julian Emanuel Zelizer (born 1969) is a professor of political history and an author in the United States at Princeton University. Zelizer has authored or co-authored several books about American political history; his focuses of study are the sec ...

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)