Frank Jacob
Author · 9 books
Born in 1984, Frank Jacob studied history and Japanese studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Osaka University from 2004 to 2010. In 2012, he received a doctorate in Japanese studies from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for a dissertation on secret societies in Germany and Japan. After working as a lecturer in Erlangen and Düsseldorf and as a research assistant in Würzburg, he was appointed to a tenure-track professorship in world and global history at The City University of New York in 2014. In 2018, he was appointed professor of global history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at Nord Universitet in Norway. His areas of work include comparative revolutionary history, the history of anarchism, and the history of Japan.