Jacob Morrow-Spitzer

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a doctoral candidate in history at Yale University. His research interests are at the intersections of modern Jewish history, American politics, political economy and the histories of race and racism. His dissertation, titled “Jewish Citizenship Politics in the Age of American State Transformation, 1850-1933,” studies how Jews in the United States reframed and renegotiated ideas about citizenship from the end of slavery through the early years of the New Deal. His previous scholarship has appeared in American Jewish History and Southern Jewish History. Jacob holds an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Tulane University.