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
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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
