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Jacob Dorman serves as Associate Professor of Core Humanities and History at the University of Nevada, Reno within the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts. He teaches courses including U.S. History Since 1877, Introduction to African-American History, The Roaring Twenties, and American Cultural and Intellectual History.
His educational background includes a B.A. with highest honors in History from Stanford University (1996), where he studied with Clayborne Carson and Sylvia Wynter, and a Ph.D. in United States History with emphasis on African American History from UCLA (2004), advised by Brenda Stevenson and studying with Joyce Appleby and Gary Nash.
Dorman specializes in African American religious history, particularly Black Islam and Black Judaism in America. His research examines cultural intersections of race, religion, and Orientalism during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, exploring how marginalized communities created religious traditions through cultural bricolage. He focuses on transformative learning experiences and theoretical frameworks in historical scholarship.
His publications reveal consistent engagement with Black religious innovation, analyzing how African Americans appropriated and transformed Islamic and Jewish traditions within contexts of segregation, imperialism, and cultural performance. Key themes include the role of orientalism in American religious life, the politics of religious identity formation, and the connections between entertainment culture and religious movements.
- Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association
- Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for Africana Religions
- Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize
- Outstanding Academic Title from CHOICE
- Illinois Historical Society Award
Dorman's research has received substantial funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Mellon Foundation, Gilder-Lehrman Institute, and major university research centers. His scholarly work appears in journals including The Journal of African American History and Nova Religio, with significant contributions to understanding religious syncretism in the African diaspora.
