[5] Two years later, Jacobs also received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to expand on her research from White Mother to a Dark Race.
[6] In 2015, Jacobs was appointed the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge for the 2015–16 academic year.
[7] Throughout her tenure at UNL, Jacobs studied the removal of indigenous children from their families during the settlement of America’s West by white Europeans.
[9] Jacobs also received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize, contextualize, and make available materials related to the Genoa Indian Industrial School.
[10] In 2021, Jacobs was named a Charles Mach Professor by the University of Nebraska, one of the highest forms of recognition bestowed upon faculty.