Rebecca Hayes Jacobs

Wellcome Postdoctoral Curatorial Research Fellow

Dr. Rebecca Hayes Jacobs is the Wellcome Trust Curatorial Research Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY’s Center for the Humanities. She works on Wellcome’s international cultural programming on global health challenges through her position at the Center. She was the 2017-2019 Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York, where she co-curated the exhibitions Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis and Urban Indian: Native New York Now. Dr. Jacobs received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University with a concentration in public humanities.