CURRICULUM VITAE

MEG JACOBS

EDUCATION

INSTITUTION DEGREE DATE

University of Virginia Ph.D. 1998

University of Virginia M. A. 1993

Cornell University B.A. 1990

TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS: The Politics of Purchasing Power: Political Economy, Consumption Politics, and State-Building in the United States, 1909-1959

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2004- Associate Professor of History, MIT

1999- Assistant Professor of History, MIT

1997-1999 Assistant Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

Insiders: The Oil Crisis, Conservative Governance, and the Dismantling of the American State since the 1970s,under contract with Hill and Wang.

The Reagan Revolution: A Brief History with Documents, under contract with Bedford/St. Martin.

“Back to the Future: Energy Politics in the Bush Administration,” in W. As History: America’s Leading Historians Take a First Look at the Presidency of George W. Bush. Julian E. Zelizer, editor, under contract with Princeton University Press.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Princeton University Press, 2005. Winner of the Organization of American Historians 2006 Ellis Hawley Prize and the 2006 New England History Association Best Book Award.

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, Co-edited with William Novak and Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University Press, 2003.

ARTICLES

“‘Democracy’s Third Estate:’ New Deal Politics and the Construction of a ‘Consuming Public.’” International Labor & Working-Class History 55, Spring 1999: 27-51.

“‘How About Some Meat?’: the Office of Price Administration, Consumption Politics, and State-Building from the Bottom Up, 1941-1946,” Journal of American History, December 1997: 910-41.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“The Conservative Struggle and the American Energy Crisis” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, edited by Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer, Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

Co-author with Julian Zelizer, “Introduction,” in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, Princeton University Press, 2003, 1-19.

“Pocketbook Politics: Democracy and the Market in Twentieth-Century America,” in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, Princeton University Press, 2003.

“Inflation: ‘The Permanent Dilemma’ of the American Middle-Classes,” in Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari, eds., Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century, Russell Sage Press, 2002, 130-153.

“The Politics of Plenty in the United States,” in Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton, eds., The Politics of Consumption, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001, 223-239.

“Constructing a New Political Economy: Philanthropies, Institution-Building, and Consumer Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, ed., Studying Philanthropic Foundations: Essays Toward a New

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies, Fellow 20008-2009

Levitan Prize in the Humanities, MIT 2007-2008

D’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education Grant, MIT 2006-2007

MIT Alumni Sponsored Education Grant 2005-2006

Class of 1947 Career Development Chair, MIT 2004-2007

Charles Warren Fellow, Center for the Study of American History,

Harvard University 2003-2004

MIT Provost Fund Research Award 2000

Harvard Business School Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship 1999-2000

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Grant, Harvard Business School 1997-8

Harry S. Truman Library Dissertation Writing Fellowship 1996-7

Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Fellowship 1995-96