Jacob Forbes

Jacob is a second year PhD student studying modern European history, with emphases on Germany history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the history of European minorities; and German religious communities. He is currently interested in the relationship between Germans’ sense of legality within the Rechtsstaat and nationalistic ideology prior to the First World War. Jacob is also a freelance copyeditor and is currently working on an upcoming publication from Cambridge University Press. He is advised by Professor Helmut Walser Smith.