David Jacobson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, and 2017-2018 Fulbright Research Fellow, and Visiting Fellow, at PRIO (Peace Research Institute of Oslo). Born in South Africa, he received his graduate training at the London School of Economics (MSc) and Princeton University (Ph.D.). He completed his undergraduate training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A political sociologist, he works in the areas of immigration, refugees and citizenship; Big Data platforms for research; human rights; religion and conflict; borders and global seams; and woman's status in global conflict. His most recent book (monograph) is, Of Virgins and Martyrs: Woman's Status in Global Conflict, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. He has directed surveys across three continents, and research teams in Europe, United States and West Africa. He developed the "Tribalism Index," for gauging levels of tribalism and the outcomes for civil violence, voting, civic resilience and other political and sociological outcomes. Professor Jacobson is the author of, among other works, Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship, a core text of the debate on post-nationalism and citizenship. He also authored Place and Belonging in America. He presented the Haar Lecture in International Sociology at Princeton University. He has had visiting appointments at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Sciences Po and the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations. His work has featured in Salon.com, New York Times, France 2 Television, the Nation, La Croix, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Tages Anzeiger, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Foreign Policy, Sonntags Zeitung, Haaretz, the German feminist magazine EMMA, and a variety of other media outlets. He also co-founded the Global Resolve Initiative, which helps villagers in developing countries develop alternative energy technologies, with a pilot project in Ghana. Global Resolve received the 2009 Creasman Award for Excellence.