The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected Karl Jacoby (CSER Co-Director) to be a part of its 23rd class of Fellows: 15 talented academics, literary artists, and independent scholars. The Fellows were selected from a pool of 506 applicants from 48 countries. Professor Jacoby will be at the Cullman Center working on a history of the U.S.-Mexico War and the making of the U.S.-Mexico border in Scar of Empire: The American Conquest of Northern Mexico and the Creation of the U.S.-Mexico Border.