Meg Jacobs

Meg Jacobs
Nationality	American
Spouse	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, and the University of Virginia. She was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a resident scholar at Princeton University.

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. 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.

External links

• The Energy Crisis and the End of American Liberalism, slate, April 2016
• What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?, Meg Jacobs, videolectures