Matthew Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize.

Matthew Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA).

Awarded every other year, the ASA’s Bode-Pearson Prize recognizes the “outstanding achievement of an individual who has dedicated a lifetime of work to the mission and values of American studies.”  

Jacobson is a renowned historian and public scholar who has transformed our understanding of how race shapes political life and culture in the United States.  Read article