POSTDOC-EMPLOYEE
M_Cardiovascular Research Inst
Jacob Green, PhD, received his doctorate in history from UCLA. His research interests center on the history of psychoactive drugs and their influence on culture, religion and law. His dissertation work explored how historical context shaped hallucinations and other altered states of consciousness patients experienced under anesthesia during surgeries and dental procedures in the 19th and early 20th centuries. At the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, Jacob will work on documents in the Juul Labs Collection. He plans to investigate several technological solutions Juul piloted to prevent vaping amongst youths such as a parental lock for Juul devices and a high-tech smoke detector to curbing e-cigarette use in schools. He aims to analyze how Juul used these solutions, and the popular perception that technology is a quick fix for societal problems, to deal with regulatory efforts to restrict e-cigarettes and curb youth vaping.
Jacob’s work has appeared in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals and is forthcoming in an edited volume based on the 2025 Harvard Psychedelic Intersections Conference