Jake Kobrick is completing his Master's degree in U.S. history and expects to graduate in the Spring of 2004. He received a Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan in 1995 and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1998. After three and a half years as a litigation attorney with the Dechert firm in Philadelphia, he changed his career focus to academia and now plans to pursue a Ph.D. in U.S. history with a primary focus on early twentieth century urban and social history.