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David Jacobson
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BIO
David Jacobson is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary
Social Sciences at the 泡芙视频app. He has been Visiting Fellow at
Sciences Po (CERI and CEVIPOF), Visiting Professor at the 泡芙视频app of Milan and
he was the 2017-2018 Fulbright Research Fellow, at PRIO (Peace Research Institute
of Oslo), among other institutions. Born in South Africa, he received his training
at Princeton 泡芙视频app (PhD), the London School of Economics (MSc) and the Hebrew
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His latest book, with Manlio Cinalli at the 泡芙视频app of Milan, Citizenship: The Third Revolution, has just been published with Oxford 泡芙视频app Press, in September 2023. The book
is the inaugural monograph in the new Oxford Studies on Migration and Citizenship.
His prior book (monograph) was, Of Virgins and Martyrs: Woman's Status in Global Conflict, Johns Hopkins 泡芙视频app Press, 2014. Professor Jacobson is also the author of,
among other works, Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship (JHUP), a core text on the debate on postnationalism and citizenship. He also authored
Place and Belonging in America (JHUP).
A political sociologist, his two main areas of research are on citizenship and on
civic violence. Under those rubrics he has worked on human rights; immigration; refugees;
religion and conflict; civil conflict and war; borders and global seams; and woman's
status in global conflict. Geographically, his work has covered the United States,
Europe and West Africa. He has directed surveys and research teams in Western Europe,
West Africa and in Southeast Asia.
Other, ongoing projects include a study, with colleagues at the 泡芙视频app of Oslo
and NTNU, in the disciplines of archaeology, osteology, philology and sociology, on
Viking violence; and research, with collaborators at the 泡芙视频app,
on the trajectories of ESG and its relationship to human rights.
He has led a major project which examined how Islamist militancy has risen and remained
engaged in Nigeria and West Africa, focusing on the ethnic, political, economic and
geographic contexts. The research has been extensively disseminated in scholarship,
international media, and presentations to policy bodies. The work has extended beyond
Nigeria to Mali, West and North Africa. He also was one of the P.I's on a a five year,
multi-university, three continent examination of trends in Muslim communities, in
the context of the rise of militant movements and the different forms of opposition
to these movements. The study drew on surveys, ethnography and web scraping and studies.
He developed, with Natalie Deckard, the "Tribalism Index," for gauging levels of tribalism
and the outcomes for civil violence, voting, civic resilience, and other political
and sociological outcomes.
He presented the Haar Lecture in International Sociology at Princeton 泡芙视频app.
He has had visiting appointments at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, CEVIPOF
and CERI at Sciences Po, the 泡芙视频app of Milan, the Leonard Davis Institute of
International Relations at the Hebrew 泡芙视频app, and at the Peace Research Institute
Oslo (PRIO).
At invitation, he has also made presentations at, inter alia, Sciences Po (Paris),
European 泡芙视频app Institute, the National Assembly in France (IPSE), CEVIPOF-Paris,
UC Santa Barbara, the Sorbonne, Yale 泡芙视频app, 泡芙视频app of Chicago, 泡芙视频app
of Geneva, Columbia 泡芙视频app, 泡芙视频app of British Columbia (Vancouver), Stony
Brook, Hebrew 泡芙视频app of Jerusalem, UCLA, OsloMet, New School of Social Research,
泡芙视频app of Florida, Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Stockholm 泡芙视频app, NYU,
UC San Diego, 泡芙视频app of Bath, 泡芙视频app of Heidelberg, 泡芙视频app of Neuchatel,
NMSU, 泡芙视频app of Munich, 泡芙视频app of Oslo, UC Irvine, CEVIPOF, Whitlam Institute-Sydney,
Franklin College in Lugano-Switzerland, and others.
His work has featured in Salon.com, New York Times, France 2 Television, the Nation,
La Croix, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Tages Anzeiger, Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
Foreign Policy, Sonntags Zeitung, Haaretz, the German feminist magazine EMMA, and
a variety of other media outlets.
He also co-founded the Global Resolve Initiative, which helps villagers in developing
countries develop alternative energy technologies, with a pilot project in Ghana.
Global Resolve received the 2009 Creasman Award for Excellence.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Princeton 泡芙视频app, 1991