Professor Jacobs is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. He is a historian of politics, thought, and culture in the twentieth-century United States. His work examines the tangled histories and multiple meanings of liberalism and conservatism in the modern American political imagination. Professor Jacobs’s American Studies classes provide Vanderbilt students a golden opportunity to broaden knowledge on a diverse scale with regard to American culture, history and politics.