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Meg Jacobs is a Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where she teaches courses in public policy and history. Previously, she was an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and held fellowships at Harvard Business School, the Charles Warren Center, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Virginia.
Her research focuses on U.S. 20th and 21st century political and economic history, including consumer history, environmental policy, labor movements, and presidential decision-making. Key publications include Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005), which won the Organization of American Historians' 2006 prize, and Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and The Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (2020).
Recent scholarship explores the Reagan era, George W. Bush's energy policies, and post-WWII political dynamics. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary policy debates, particularly around environmental regulation and business-government interactions.
- Awards: Organization of American Historians' 2006 Best Book Prize
- Grants/Affiliations: Harvard Business School Fellowship | Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
- Labs/Teams: Engaged in interdisciplinary policy research collaborations at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs
