Glenn Jacobs

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 5
Telephone: 617-287-6262
Email: glenn.jacobs@umb.edu

Research

Current research is on urban Latino community-based organizations; head of the Trotter Institute research consortium on immigrant community-based organizations; Afro-Cuban musicians in a Havana barrio. 

Representative Publications

Jacobs, G. (2009). Influence and Canonical Supremacy: An Analysis of  How George Herbert Mead Demoted Charles Horton Cooley in the Sociological Canon. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 45 (Spring): 117-144.

Jacobs, Glenn (2006). Charles Horton Cooley: Imagining Social Reality. MA: University of Massachusetts Press.

Jacobs, G. (1999). Observations and Queries on Santería: A Report from the Field. The Discourse of Sociological Practice. 1 (Winter): 2-7.

Jacobs, G. (2001). Educational Grievance, Privatization and Latino Mobilization: Chelsea. In C. Hardy-Fanta and J. Gerson (eds.) Latino Political Representation in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies, and Prospects. Garland Publishing Company.

Jacobs, Glenn and Ramona Hernandez (2001). Beyond Homeland Politics: Dominicans in Massachusetts. C. Hardy-Fanta and J. Gerson (eds.), Latino Political Representation in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies, and Prospects. Garland Publishing Company.