Jacob S. Eder is currently a research fellow and lecturer at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History of the Wiener Library, the Marko Feingold Dissertation Prize in Jewish Studies of the University of Salzburg, and the Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.