Margaret D. Jacobs

Chancellor's Professor of History

Contact Information:

641 Oldfather Hall

Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (402) 472-2417
Fax: (402) 472-8839
E-mail:

Curriculum Vitae: CV

Joined the Department:

2004

I am primarily interested in women, gender, race, and empire, and I conduct comparative historical research on settler colonies such as the American and Canadian Wests and Australia.

My most recent book, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940, won three awards, including the 2010 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University.

I am currently working on two main projects: 1) a history of the fostering and adoption of American Indian children in the late twentieth century and 2) a small, more theoretical overview of gender and colonialism in the American West. I am planning a trilogy on what I call "corporeal colonialism" that will address three embodied histories of colonialism: indigenous dance; food; and language.

I teach courses on U.S. women's and gender history, the history of women and gender in the American West, and graduate courses in American history and women, gender, and empire.

Expertise:

• Colonialism and Decolonization
• Indigenous Peoples
• Native American
• North American West
• Women

Education:

Ph.D.. History, University of California, Davis, 1996
A.B. History, Stanford University, 1986

Past positions:
Assistant and Associate Professor, History, New Mexico State University, 1997-2004