Summary
Associate Professor Jacob S. Dorman teaches courses on United States history, African American history, the Gilded Age and progressive eras, cultural and intellectual history and w88 sports betting Humanities. He pays particular attention to creating idea-driven lectures, scaffolding writing skills, explaining theoretical assumptions of scholarly work even in introductory courses and facilitating transformative learning experiences.
Dorman received his B.A. with highest honors from Stanford University in 1996, where he studied with professors including Clayborne Carson, George Frederickson, Arnold Eisen and Sylvia Wynter and his Ph.D. in United States w88 sports betting with an emphasis on African American w88 sports betting from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. There he studied with professors such as Joyce Appleby, Gary Nash, Carlo Ginzburg, Laura Edwards, Lynn Hunt, Donald Cosentino and his dissertation adviser, Brenda Stevenson.
His last w88 sports betting, which appeared from Beacon Press in March 2020, was entitled "The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret w88 sports betting of Magic, Race, and Black Muslims in America," and set the w88 sports betting of the 1920s emergence of American Black Muslim sects within a broad cultural w88 sports betting of Islam and orientalism in American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book recovers the hidden life of the first Black Muslim prophet, Noble Drew Ali, as he went from being a child star on Broadway to a Hindu magician in circuses, Wild West Shows and vaudeville theaters and a conjure doctor on the East Coast before founding the Moorish Science Temple based in Chicago in 1925 and dying a mysterious death in 1929. By focusing on Drew Ali's story and also on the many Islamic influences in the World's Fair of 1893, in the Shriners, in Black Nationalism and in magic, this book explains not only where the Black Muslims came from, but why the African American adoption of Islam made sense in an era of growing imperialism, racism, segregation, northern migration and orientalist entertainment. It also provides a w88 sports betting of politics and corruption in 1920’s Chicago. The book won an award from the Illinois Historical Society. Robin DG Kelley called the book “spectacular in so many ways.”
He is also the author of "Chosen People: The Rise of w88 sports betting Black Israelite Religions" (Oxford 2013), which won the Wesley-Logan Prize from the w88 sports betting Historical Association, the 2014 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions and the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize from the University of Kansas. CHOICE also named the book an Outstanding Academic Title; it became an Oxford University Press bestseller and was reprinted in 2016. Penn's John L. Jackson declared that, "Jacob Dorman has written a masterful (even paradigm-shifting) book on Black Judaism, a genuine tour de force...a powerful and meticulous portrait...an engaging and thoughtful read..." Robin D.G. Kelley of UCLA wrote the book, "Made an immense contribution to our understanding of the African Diaspora, religion and modernity, and the vexing problem of cultural identity. The research is prodigious, the scope impressive, and his telling of how African-descended people embraced and transformed Judaism is truly dynamic. Most importantly, Chosen w88 sports betting reminds us that people are not merely inheritors of tradition but its creators." Other reviewers used terms like engaging, fascinating, intricate, impressive, refreshing and twice called the w88 sports betting a "must-read."
Dorman is the author of many scholarly articles or anthology chapters and w88 sports betting reviews, which have appeared in such venues as The Journal of African American w88 sports betting, "Nova Religio: A Journal of New and Emergent Religions;" "Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society; and "The Journal of Pan African Studies." His work has been generously supported by many funders, including the National Endowment for the w88 sports betting, the Newberry Library, the American Council of Learned Societies Ryskamp Fellowship, the Mellon Foundation, the Hall Center for the w88 sports betting at the University of Kansas, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, the Black Metropolitan Research Consortium at the University of Chicago and libraries or institutes associated with Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Duke, Wisconsin, Texas and the University of Kansas.
Research Interests
- U.S. cultural w88 sports betting
- African American w88 sports betting
- Race and ethnicity
- U.S. religious w88 sports betting
- Popular culture
- The Gilded Age and progressive eras
- Theory and methods
Class Materials
- HIST 102 - U.S. w88 sports betting Since 1877
- CH 203 - w88 sports betting Experiences and Constitutional Change
- HIST 290 - The Roaring Twenties
- HIST 293C - Introduction to African-American w88 sports betting I
- ETS 307 - Topics in Race and Racism
- HIST 415C/615C - U.S. w88 sports betting 1877-1929 (Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
- HIST 410B/610B - American Cultural and Intellectual w88 sports betting II
- HIST 724 - Topical Seminar in U.S. w88 sports betting
Publications
- The Princess and the Prophet: A Tale of Magic, Muslims, and America(Boston: Beacon Press, 2019)
- Chosen People: The Rise of w88 sports betting Black Israelite Religions(New York: w88 sports betting, 2013).
- "Dreams Defended and Deferred: The Brooklyn Schools Crisis of 1968 and w88 sports betting Power's Influence on Rabbi Meir Kahane"American Jewish w88 sports betting 100no. 2 (April 2016): 411-437.
- "Oriental Hieroglyphics Understood Only by the Priesthood and a Chosen Few:" The Islamic Orientalism of White and w88 sports betting Masons and Shriners" inIslam and the Atlantic World: New Paradigms w88 sports betting Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Aisha Khan, 49-68. Gainesville, U. Press of Florida, 2015.
Education
- Ph.D., United States w88 sports betting, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
- A.B., w88 sports betting with Highest Honors, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1996