Matthew Frye Jacobson

Matthew Frye Jacobson is a historian whose research concerns politics and race in all eras of American history. He is the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of African American Studies at Yale University.[1][2] From 2012 to 2013 he was president of the American Studies Association.[3]

Matthew Frye Jacobson
TitleWilliam Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies & History
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University
Notable worksRoots Too

Education

Jacobson earned a BA from Evergreen State College and an MA from Boston College.[4] He received his doctorate in American Civilization in 1992 from Brown University.[5]

Works
  • Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (1995)[6]
  • Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)[7][8][9][10]
  • Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)[11][12]
  • Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2005)[13][14]
  • What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (with Gaspar González, 2006)[15][16][17]

References
  1. "Matthew Jacobson named the William Robertson Coe Professor", YaleNews, November 13, 2012, retrieved April 5, 2017
  2. "Jacobson appointed Sterling Professor of American Studies and History". YaleNews. 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  3. The Role of President, American Studies Association, retrieved April 5, 2017
  4. Olympia, The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW; Phone, Washington 98505867-6000; Directories, Email. "Cutting Through the Noise | The Evergreen State College". www.evergreen.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  5. Matthew Jacobson, Yale University Department of History, retrieved April 5, 2017
  6. Kirsch, Jonathan (March 29, 1995), "In America, but Longing for Home: Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson", Book Review / Nonfiction, Los Angeles Times
  7. Anthes, Louis C. (April 1999), "Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and All-Around:Race, Immigration, and the Politics of Color in American History", H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
  8. Spickard, Paul (January 2001), "Review: Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson", Social History, 26 (1): 114–117, JSTOR 4286741
  9. White, John (November 26, 1999), "Are Caucasians made or born? Whiteness of a Different Color", Times Higher Education
  10. Tunc, Tanfer Emin (June 2008), "Recapitulating the historiographical contributions of Matthew Frye Jacobson's Whiteness of a Different Color and Gail Bederman's Manliness and Civilization", Rethinking History, 12 (2): 281–288, doi:10.1080/13642520802002372, S2CID 145218233
  11. "Review of Barbarian Virtues", Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2000
  12. "Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917", Nonfiction Book Review, Publishers Weekly, April 3, 2000
  13. Hirschman, Charles (July 2007), "Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America By Matthew Frye Jacobson" (PDF), Book Review, American Journal of Sociology, 113 (1): 274–276, doi:10.1086/520896, JSTOR 10.1086/520896
  14. Strub, Whitney (March 24, 2006), "Review of Roots Too", PopMatters
  15. Brown, Joseph F. (December 2007), "What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America", The Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (6): 1074–1076, doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00486_1.x
  16. Carruthers, Susan (September 2007), "What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez", Journal of American History, 94 (2): 643, doi:10.2307/25095098, JSTOR 25095098
  17. Faucette, Brian (November 2009), "What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America", Journal of Popular Film and Television, 37 (3): 147, doi:10.1080/01956050903218166, S2CID 191468089
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