MIT World Speakers

Meg Jacobs

Meg Jacobs received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Virginia. Her book, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America was published by Princeton University Press in January 2005.

During 1999-2000 Professor Jacobs was a Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History at the Harvard Business School. In 2003-2004, she was a Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University. Her current research focuses on the energy crisis of the 1970s.