Jacob Lee

About

Jacob Lee is an Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University, specializing in early America and the American West with a focus on colonialism and borderlands. His first book, Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi, published by Harvard University Press in 2019, explores the intertwined Native and imperial histories in the physical landscape of Middle America, emphasizing the importance of personal relationships and environmental factors in shaping empires and nations. His research draws on a diverse range of sources, including English-, French-, Spanish-, and Illinois-language documents, as well as archaeology, oral history, and environmental science. He is currently working on a project titled The Laws of Nations: Legal Jurisdiction and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Indian Territory, which examines how Indigenous nations such as the Cherokee and Osage exercised sovereignty through jurisdiction over crimes within their borders during the 1820s to 1850s. This work investigates how Native nations maintained authority, repaired harms, and defined citizenship amidst U.S. federal and state efforts to undermine Indigenous governance.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Mechanics
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Organic chemistry
• Thermodynamics
• Physical chemistry
• Mechanical engineering

Selected publications

• Flame structure and NOx emission characteristics in a single hydrogen combustor

  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · 2022 · 29 citations

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• The Impact of Liquid Properties on Spray Drift from Fixed-Wing Aerial Application Aircraft

  Applied Engineering in Agriculture · 2025-01-01

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  Highlights Small variations in liquid properties can increase the spray volume contained in drift-prone droplets by over 40%. Dynamic surface tension, shear viscosity, and extensional viscosity affect drift by altering droplet size. The degree to which liquid properties affect droplet size and drift is dependent on the sprayer configuration. Changing liquid properties can increase spray drift by over 100% compared to baseline mixtures for select cases. Abstract. Two experimental datasets are ana…

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Frequent coauthors

• Domenic A. Santavicca

  Pennsylvania State University

  28 shared

• Bryan D. Quay

  Pennsylvania State University

  22 shared

• Jinkwan Song

  General Electric (Israel)

  16 shared

• Kyu Tae Kim

  Pennsylvania State University

  11 shared

• Kwanwoo Kim

  7 shared

• Hyung Ju Lee

  Pukyong National University

  6 shared

• Nicholas Tsolas

  Auburn University

  4 shared

• Arda Cakmakci

  University of Cincinnati

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• Richard H. Collins Award, Kentucky Historical Society
• John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellowship, John Carter…
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library
• Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William B. Clem…
• Jon Gjerde Prize for Best Book in Midwestern History, Midwes…

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