Dr. Jacob Soll

Jacob Soll is Professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California and the author of "The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System." He is a 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and a 2009 winner of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is also co-editor of the series "Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World, "together with Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton.

Jacob Soll is Professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California and the author of "The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System." He is a 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and a 2009 winner of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is also co-editor of the series "Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World, "together with Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton. See less