Margaret D. Jacobs

Margaret D. Jacobs (b. Jan. 31, 1963) is the Chancellor's Professor of History at University of Nebraska.
She graduated from Stanford University with a A.B. in History, and University of California, Davis, with a P.h.D.. in History, in 1996.

• 2010 Bancroft Prize for White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Materialism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940.

• "Maternal Colonialism: White Women and Indigenous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940", Western Historical Quarterly
• Engendered encounters: feminism and Pueblo cultures, 1879-1934, University of Nebraska Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8032-7609-3
• White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8032-1100-1