BA History, Stanford University with Highest Honors, 1996

Ph.D. US History, Carey McWilliams Fellow, UCLA 2004

An author and professor with 18 years on the tenure track, Jake is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, and two fellowships from the Mellon Foundation. He has also received the Jacob Javits Fellowship as well as research fellowships from Harvard, Yale, Duke, Texas and Wisconsin. He is the author of twelve articles and chapters and two books, Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions (Oxford UP, 2013) and The Princess and The Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and the Rise of the Black Muslims (Beacon Press, 2020). He has taught at UCLA, Wesleyan, The University of Kansas, and the University of Nevada, Reno. You can reach Jake at jacobsdorman@gmail.com.