Jacob Soll

Jacob Soll
Born	1968 Madison, Wisconsin
Fields	history
Institutions	University of Southern California, Rutgers University-Camden
Alma mater	University of Iowa, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Biblioteca Nacionale de Lisboa
Notable awards	2005 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, 2011 MacArthur Fellowship

Jacob Soll (born 1968) is a historian of early modern Europe who is researching the origins of the modern state. He is currently a professor at the University of Southern California and has won the 2005 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. In 2011 he was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship.

He has authored three books; Publishing "The Prince" (2005), The Information Master (2009) and The Reckoning (2014).

Soll was born in Madison, Wisconsin. His parents are David Soll, a molecular geneticist, and Beth Soll, née Bronfenbrenner, a modern dance choreographer. His grandfather is child psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. Through his maternal Grandmother, Liese Bronfenbrenner, née Price, Soll is the great grandson of the English author and professor, Hereward Thimbleby Price, and a descendent of the Prym family of industrialists and academics from Aachen, Stolberg, Düren and Bonn, Germany. Early hometowns included Cambridge, Massachusetts, Iowa City and Paris, France.

He earned a B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1991, a D.E.A. in 1993 from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and a Ph.D. in 1998 from Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has worked in Lisbon, Portugal as Bolseiro of the Biblioteca Nacionale de Lisboa and in Florence, Italy as a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. Prior to his appointment at USC in 2012, Soll was a professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden.

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