Margaret Jacobs
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Charles Mach Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Full Biography
Margaret Jacobs is the Charles Mach Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published more than 35 articles and 3 books, primarily about Indigenous child removal and family separation. Her book, White Mother to a Dark Race, won the Bancroft Prize in 2010. In 2017, she co-founded the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and in 2018, Reconciliation Rising, a multimedia project.
