Program: Joint Doctorate in Public History and American History
Email: sjacobson1@luc.edu
Office: Crown Center 557
Office Hours: By appointment
Advisor: Dr. Theodore J. Karamanski
Research Areas: 19th and 20th Century US; American Religion; Native American Studies; Public Memory; Genocide Studies
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Joint Program in Public History / American History
Public History
My research interests span multiple topics within American History and Public History. Within American History, I am interested in 19th and 20th century American social and cultural history, American Christianity, America in the world, and the intersections between faith and public memory. At present, I am researching the responses of white and indigenous Christians to the 1830 Indian Removal Act and its aftermath effects on American Protestantism and racial justice. Previous projects have included topics such as American missionaries in the Middle East, humanitarian responses to the Armenian Genocide, the New Deal in higher education, and memory in the built environment.
Specific to Public History, I am interested in "sites of conscience" and museums that address more difficult subject matters, such as slavery and genocide, among other tragedies and atrocities. I have previously created a podcast miniseries on genocide memorials in the Chicago area and wrote a journal article-length narrative on the history of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
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