Frank Jacob (historian)

Frank Jacob (born August 8, 1984 in Schmalkalden ) is a German historian and Japanologist .

Life

From 2004 to 2010 Jacob studied history and Japanese studies at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg and at the Osaka University (Japan) . In 2012, after two years of doctoral studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , he received his doctorate in the Japanese Studies department with a thesis on secret societies in Germany and Japan. Since 2011 he has been editor of the Globalhistorische Komparativstudien / Comparative Studies from a Global Perspective series (Königshausen & Neumann), which deals with various historical issues from a global perspective. After working as a lecturer at the Friedrich Alexander University and the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, he was appointed research assistant at the Chair of Modern History I (Chair of Wolfgang Altgeld) at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg in 2013 .

In 2014 he was offered a tenure track professorship for world and global history from 1500 at the City University of New York . In the course of this, Jacob also worked as the CUNY Academy Officer for Internationalization and Global Exchange and was able to initiate some international cooperation agreements with universities outside the USA. In 2016 he received the Henry Wasser Award for Outstanding Assistant Professors from the Academy for the Humanities and Sciences at the City University of New York for his research.

Jacob is the editor of Kurt Eisner 's estate , a project funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation between 2015 and 2018 . The editions of Kurt Eisner's writings appear in the Kurt Eisner Studies series by Berlin's Metropol Verlag. In addition, Jacob is the editor of several series, including a. War (Hi) Stories (Schöningh) and knowledge about goods (Nomos) and has organized annual conferences in Germany and the United States since 2013. His last monographs deal with the Russo-Japanese War and Japanese war crimes in World War II. In addition, Jacob works on topics of revolutionary history and nationalism research.

His broad focus in teaching and research is German and Japanese history of the 19th and 20th centuries, comparative history as well as global and transnational issues with a cultural-historical orientation from 1500 to 1945. His publications in German and English often follow interdisciplinary approaches and can be roughly located in the areas of global history, cultural history, military history and laboratory history. Jacob is also considered an expert on secret societies and the non-European perspective of the First World War , although he has also regularly written on the latter topic for Focus Online .

In 2018, at the age of 33, Jacob followed his second academic call - to a professorship for global history of the 19th and 20th centuries - at Nord Universitet, Norway.

Works (selection)

as an author

• 2010: The Thule Society , uni-edition, Berlin.
• 2013: The Thule Society and Kokuryûkai , Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg.
• 2014: Japanism, Pan-Asianism, Terrorism - A Short History of the Amur Society (Black Dragons) 1901–1945 , Academica Press , Palo Alto.
• 2015: Secret Societies, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.
• 2016: The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe: A Revision, co-authered with Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo, Palgrave, London.
• 2017: Tsushima 1905: East Asia's Trafalgar, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn
• 2018: The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the 20th Century, Routledge, London and New York
• 2018: George Kennan on the Spanish American War: A Critical Edition of "Cuba and the Cubans", Palgrave, London.
• 2018: Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence, Praeger, Santa Barbara.
• 2019: Revolution and Soviet Republic in Lower Franconia, Königshauen & Neumann, Würzburg.
• 2020: 1917- The Corrupted Revolution, Büchner, Darmstadt.
• 2020: Gallipoli 1915/16: Britain's bitterest defeat, DeGruyter, Berlin.

as editor

• 2013: Secret Societies: Comparative Studies in Culture, Society and History, Comparative Studies from a Global Perspective Vol. 1 , Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg.
• 2014: Peripheries of the Cold War, Comparative Studies from a Global Perspective Vol. 3 , Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg.
• 2015: Tobacco and Society: From Brown Gold to Social Stigma, Nomos, Baden-Baden, ed. with G. Dworok
• 2016: Prostitution - A Companion of Mankind , Peter Lang Verlag , Frankfurt am Main et al
• 2016: Kurt Eisner: Prison Diary, Metropol Verlag, Berlin
• 2017: War and Geography: The Spatiality of Organized Mass Violence, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn. co-ed. with S. Danielson
• 2018: Migration and the Crisis of the Modern Nation State? Vernon Press, Wilmington, DE. co-edited with Adam Luedtke
• 2019: Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader, DeGruyter, Berlin / Boston.
• 2019: Pornography: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Peter Lang, Berlin.
• 2020: Sports and Politics, DeGruyter, Berlin / Boston.

Source editions

• 2016–2019: Kurt Eisner Studies, 7 vols. Metropol Verlag, Berlin.

Web links

• Frank Jacob on academia.edu. Retrieved July 10, 2014 . 
• Frank Jacob on clio-online. Retrieved July 10, 2014 . 
• Frank Jacob on the homepage of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. Retrieved July 10, 2014 . 
• Literature by and about Frank Jacob in the catalog of the German National Library