Positions

Professor, Earth, Environment, and Planning, College of Arts and Sciences

Contact Info

jacobsa@ecu.edu

252-328-1933

Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

AJ Jacobs

selected publications

book
- <p>The Korean Auto Industry, Volume 2: <span style="font-size:12pt;">Asian Crisis to Today, 1997 to 2020</span></p>. Palgrave MacMillan. 2023
- <p>The Korean Auto Industry, Volume I: Beginnings until 1996</p>. Palgrave MacMillan. 2022
- <p>The Auto Industry and European Integration: The Divergent Paths of the Belgian and Spain</p>. Palgrave MacMillan. 2019
- <p>Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe: Shifting Locales in the Motor Vehicle Industry</p>. Palgrave MacMillan. 2017
- <p>The 'New Domestic' Automakers in the U.S. and Canada: History, Impacts, and Prospects</p>. Lexington Books. 2016
- <p>The World's Cities: Contrasting Regional, National, and Global Perspectives</p>. Routledge. 2013
chapter
- Foreign Automakers in the U.S. and Canada: Revealing Trends since NAFTA. University of Toronto Press. 2024
- The Global City. Wiley Blackwell. 2019
- Tokyo. Wiley Blackwell. 2019
report
- The Auto Industry in Belgium: Plant Closings and Preliminary Impacts. 2018
review
- Japanese Machizukuri and Community Engagement: History, Method and Practice, by Shigeru Satoh 2021
- Gateway to Pacific: Japanese-Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco, by Meredith Oda, 2020

presentations

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professional service activities

Journal of Historical Geography Manuscript Referee for article on Industrial and regional development in South Korea 2025
Discussant Pearson Focus Group March 28, 2025 attended Pearson Focus Group on undergraduate teaching 2024
Peer Reviewer for Oxford University Press Peer Review of Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections, Second Edition, Oxford University Press 2024
STEM Faculty Well-Being Project Participated in focus group for theSTEM Faculty Well-Being Project, March 27, 2025 2024
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Advisory Board Member: Annual Editions: Urban Society 2005 - 2024
Reviewer for Pearson Higher Education Reviewer for Pearson Higher Education, Revel software for Introduction to Sociology textbooks 2018
Manuscript Reviewer for Sage Publications Textbook reviewer for Sage Publications, two Introduction to Sociology textbook 2017 - 2018
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Adivsory Board Advisory Board Member: Annual Editions: Urban Society 2018
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Advisory Board McGraw Hill Advisory Board, Annual Editions: Culture and Diversity. ; Textbook Edited by Claire Rubman 2018
Reviewer for Cengage Publications Textbook reviewer for Cengage, Introduction to Sociology Book 2017
The Open Transportation Journal Editorial Board member for Bentham Open Journal of Transportation 2017
The Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal 2017

awards and honors

Honored Instructor Award 2019-20, conferred by Campus Living and the Residence Hall Association, 2019
Honored Instructor Award 2017-18, conferred by Campus Living and the Residence Hall Association, 2017
University Scholar Award, conferred by East Carolina University, 2016

preferred title

Professor of Planning

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