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

American history The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of Settlement of the Americas, the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Native American cultures in the United States, Numerous indigenous cultures formed ...

. He is the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of African American Studies at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. From 2012–2013 he was president of the

American Studies Association The American Studies Association (ASA) is a scholarly organization founded in 1951. It is the oldest scholarly organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history. The ASA works to promote meaningful dialogue about t ...

Education

Jacobson earned a BA from

Evergreen State College The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a p ...

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