Jacoby, Karl

Allan Nevins Professor of American History

Office Hours

Fall 2024: ON LEAVE

 

Education

Ph.D. — Yale University, 1997
M.A. — Yale University, 1993
B.A. — Brown University, 1987

 

Interests and Research

Karl Jacoby is a specialist in environmental, borderlands, and Native American history. His books include Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American Conservation and Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History.  

 

Awards

  • Ray Allen Billington Prize, Organization of American Historians
  • Phillis Wheatley Book Prize, Harlem Book Fair
  • Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History, American Historical Association
  • Special Recognition, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
  • Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin Award, the American Society for Ethnohistory
  • Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
  • Lois Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association
  • George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History
  • Littleton-Griswold Award in American law and society, American Historical Association
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Huntington Library

Publications

Books

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

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