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Meg Jacobs

Room
E51-188
Phone
617-253-7895
Email
mjacobs@mit.edu
website


Professor Jacobs's areas of focus include politics, culture, and business history. She received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia in 1998. Her book manuscript, "The Politics of Purchasing Power," explores the intersection of state development, consumer culture and American politics in the New Deal and World War II.