Dr. Jacob Soll - The Library and the Information Age

Dr. Jacob Soll recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book titled The Enlightenment Library and The Quest for Universal Knowledge. He discusses some of the research he is doing for that upcoming publication. Jacob Soll received a BA from the University of Iowa, a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1995, and a Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. He has taught at Princeton, and Rutgers University, Camden, where he is an associate professor. He has been a Luso-American Fellow at the National Library in Portugal and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has received the Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas; an NEH Fellowship; and the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. His work has appeared in French, German, Italian, and Japanese.