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Margaret D. Jacobs

Margaret D. Jacobs

Associate Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies

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: email address

Curriculum Vitae: CV


Joined the Department:

2004

I am primarily interested in women, gender, race, and empire, and I conduct comparative history of settler colonies such as the American and Canadian Wests and Australia. I have just completed a book, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and Indigenous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940, published with the University of Nebraska Press in 2009.


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

Courses Taught:

HIST 951 001 Fall 2009 Graduate Seminar: Women, Gender, and Empire
HIST 941 001 Spring 2009 Readings in US History from 1877
HIST 448 001 Fall 2008 Women and Gender in the U.S. West

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



Books:

Jacobs, Margaret D. White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Articles:

Jacobs, Margaret D. "Working on the Domestic Frontier: American Indian Domestic Servants in White Women's Households in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1920-40" Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. (2007): 165-199.
Jacobs, Margaret D. "Maternal Colonialism: White Women and Indigenous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940" Western Historical Quarterly. (2005): pp. 453-476.
Jacobs, Margaret D. "A Battle for the Children: American Indian Child Removal in Arizona in the Era of Assimilation" Journal of Arizona History. (2004): pp. 31-62.
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