Doctoral Student Profiles

saa9004@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Twentieth-century Palestine; Colonial imprisonment; labor history; Marxism and political economy; Imperialism and settler-colonialism
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

ela298@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson

alperen.arslan@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European and International History, History of Science and Technology
Research Interests: History of the Modern Physical and Environmental Sciences, Science Diplomacy, Energy and Climate History, Intellectual History
Advisor: Stephen Gross

oa2286@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern Middle Eastern History
Research Interests: Nomadism and Nomadic Tribes, Middle East, Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Economic History, Environmental History
Advisor: Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer

mb5476@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/European History
Research Interests: Modern France, Caribbean, Modern Europe, French Empire, Comparative Empire, Citizenship, Cultural History
Advisor: Edward Berenson, Ada Ferrer
 

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gbs276@nyu.edu
Field: Hebrew & Judaic Studies/History
Research Interests: East European Jewish history, transnational history, history of everyday life, food history, history of the family
Advisor: Hasia Diner

rjb487@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East History
Research Interests: History of U.S.-Iranian Relations, 20th Century Iranian History, Modern Middle East History, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, America in the World, International Development, Empire and Colonialism, Political-Economy
Advisor: Arang Keshavarzian

kbh310@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Urban History; Gender & Sexuality; New York City; Material Culture; Public History; Museum Theory and Practices; Fashion & Textile Studies
Advisor: Michele Mitchell
 

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mb8865@nyu.edu
Field: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Malay World; Islam; early modernity; history of the Indian ocean; cultural history
Advisor: Ismail Fajrie Alatas 

hb1592@nyu.edu
Field: United States/Modern Jewish History
Research Interests: 20th century United States political history; conservatism; religion; New York City; American Jewish politics; Jewish Orthodoxy
Advisor: Hasia Diner, Kimberly Phillips-Fein

mb9388@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: The tensions between democracy and technocracy during the modern era, with a focus on municipal administration and public health
Advisor: Andrew Needham

hpb241@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Central Europe, Technology and Empire, Transnational History
Advisor: Larry Wolff

jpc9766@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America and the Caribbean

Research Interests: Age of Revolutions and the African diaspora, Central America, Haiti, Indigenous history, subaltern intellectual history, material culture, visual studies
Advisor: Ada Ferrer

rfc295@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Twentieth-century Haiti; Latin America and the Caribbean; socialism and anti-colonial movements; history of anthropology; history of music; folklore stories; sound engineering and field recording; race and academia
Advisor: Ada Ferrer

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fkc3282@nyu.edu

Field: Indian Ocean Islam
Research Interests: Islam, Intellectual History, Indian Ocean
Advisor: Ismail Fajrie Alatas

ic2497@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East History
Research Interests: Law and Society in Israel/Palestine, Migration History, Mizrahi Studies, Legal History
Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Lihi Ben Shitrit

psc356@nyu.edu
Field: Latin American & Caribbean
Research Interests: Twentieth-century Brazil; corruption and anti-corruption; anti-democratic politics; political discourse; misinformation; media and government; race and nation
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein

aec9757@nyu.edu
Field: Atlantic History
Research Interests: Race, Gender, and Slavery; the Body, Medicine, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century North America, Transatlantic History, Black Radical Resistance

Advisor: Jennifer Morgan

fatmadeniz@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern Middle East & Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Social and Cultural History of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Sufism, Urban History, Middle East and Islam
Advisor: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

paa9769@nyu.edu

Field: Latin American History
Research Interests: Twentieth century Colombia; campesino identity formation and imposition; race and nation; guerrillas, violence, and revolution
Advisor: Alejandro Velasco

dd3578@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Economic History and History of Capitalism, Environmental History, Modern Germany
Advisor: Stephen Gross

end253@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Slavery, gender, childhood, disability, and freedom.
Advisor: Jennifer Morgan

lke6134@nyu.edu
Field: United States History
Research Interests: Black and Indigenous histories and geographies, 19th and 20th cenutry US Southeast, public history, Jim Crow, women, gender, sexuality, race, incarceration, myths, memorials, boarding skills, labor, and community building
Advisor: Michele Mitchell

zae217@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European & US History
Research Interests: Conceptual history, history of the human sciences, economic history, history of technology, computing, interfaces
Advisor: Stefanos Geroulanos

ge2109@nyu.edu
Field: Environmental History
Research Interests: Agricultural history; cultural history; late medieval and early modern France; history of economic life; human-animal relations; urbanization
Advisor: Karl Appuhn

kf2540@nyu.edu

Field: US History
Research Interests: African American History; Post-Civil War South; Reconstruction; Environmental History; Race, Gender, and Slavery; African Diaspora
Advisor:Michele Mitchell and Andrew Needham

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dpf9458@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French studies/History
Research Interests: French and Algerian history, colonial history, immigration, subaltern forms of political organisation, urban segregation, counter and sub-cultures, law enforcement and policing
Advisor: Frederic Viguier

bwf9887@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Modern Britain; Intellectual and Cultural History
Advisor: Guy Ortolano

zf714@nyu.edu
Field: African History
Research Interests: African History, Atlantic History, Early Modern Fashion, Early Modern Textile Trade, Atlantic Trade, Atlantic Fashion
Advisor: Michael Gomez

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eg3703@nyu.edu

Field: Modern Middle East History
Research Interests: Modern history of the Middle East, Palestinian history, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Recent focus on Palestinian society in East Jerusalem.
Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Lihi Ben Shitrit, Sara Pursley 

rg3705@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern Europe
Research Interests: Cultural and legal history of bankruptcy; intellectual history; political economy; legal history; history of capitalism; France, England, and the Italian peninsula
Advisor: John Shovlin

kdg7189@nyu.edu

Field: U.S. History (with a transnational focus on migration and diaspora)

Research Interests: Indo-Guyanese history, Indian indenture in British Guiana (1838–1917), Religion, Caste and Identity in Diaspora, Transnational Caribbean–U.S. Migration (1980-2000)
Advisor: Audrey Celestine, Adrian De Leon

ag9532@nyu.edu

Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History

Research Interests: Early Modern Iran (Safavid) History
Advisor: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

amg9647@nyu.edu
Field: Caribbean History and French Studies
Research Interests: French Antilles (Martinique and Guadeloupe); Puerto Rico; Comparative Imperialisms (US and France); Decolonial Praxis; Identity, Race and Nation-building
Advisor: Edward Berenson, Audrey Celestine

atg4223@nyu.edu
Field: United States, American Jewish history
Research Interests: U.S. immigration, transnational history, nineteenth-century U.S. and Central Europe
Advisor: Kevin Kenny

fg734@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

xh726@nyu.edu
Field: Atlantic History
Research Interests: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Jamaica; Atlantic History; History of Slavery and Emancipation; Race, Gender, and Capitalism; The Afterlife of Slavery
Advisor: Rebecca Goetz

jri225@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European
Research Interests: French Empire, Labor History, Urban History, Communism and Anti-Communism, Criminality & State Crime, Epistemology of Conspiracy, History of Drugs
Advisor: Ed Berenson

jonas.knatz@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Conceptual History, Modern European Intellectual History, History of Science, History of Technology, Historical Epistemology
Advisor: Stefanos Geroulanos
 

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mk9095@nyu.edu
Field: African History
Research Interests: Medieval West Africa and Egypt; trans-Saharan trade routes, material histories; saharan studies
Advisor: Michael Gomez

rk5112@nyu.edu

Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: 20th century France and Italy, crime, political extremism and violence, memory, media and culture
Advisor: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

rl3867@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: Modern Middle East history; political economy; transnational histories
Advisor: Sara Pursley

chl6929@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Britain and Empire, Modern China, and Transnational History
Research Interests: Migration and Diaspora; Structures of Citizenship; International Relations; Treaty Port Cities; Colonial Identity Formation; British-Chinese Entanglements
Advisor: David Ludden

al5348@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Advisor: Larry Wolff

kml10106@nyu.edu

Field: Modern European History

Research Interests: 20th-century Europe, fascism & authoritarianism, gender and sexuality, queer history, modern Italy.
Advisor: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

gl2219@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean History
Research Interests: Latin America's Cold War; guerrillas, violence, and revolutions; development of capitalism in the countryside, neoliberalism, and the porous urban-rural divide; transational history
Advisor: Alejandro Velasco

claudia.lonkin@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe, Latin America
Research Interests: Transnational history between Eastern Europe and Latin America, Cold War cultural and material history, state-owned enterprises, identity formation
Advisor: Larry Wolff

njl3500@nyu.edu

Field: United States 
Research Interests: Chinese Exclusion Acts, Chinese Canadian history, Asian American history, immigration and exclusion, global and transnational histories, community and public history, social and legal history
Advisor: Adrian De Leon, Irvin Ibarguen

sl7794@nyu.edu
Field: United States History
Research Interests: Food and business
Advisor: Hasia Diner, Kevin Kenny

nma395@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Interests: Twentieth-century Colombia, Human Rights, Forced Disappearance and Corporality, History of the Body, Social History
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson

maytal@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East and Jewish History
Research Interests: Intellectual history, Jewish intellectual production in Arabic, Jewish responses to Zionism, history of Jewish communities of the Middle East, Arab-Jewish intellectual exchange
Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

alexandermaro@nyu.edu

Field: Modern European History, Modern Jewish History

Research Interests: Modern Europe (particularly Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union); the Jewish world; authoritarianism and totalitarianism; mass violence; empires and nations; global history 
Advisor: David Engel & Stephen Gross

km6555@nyu.edu

Field: Modern Europe

Research Interests: Memory Culture, Central Europe, Habsburg Europe, History of Nationalism, Nationalist Historiography, Public History Studies, Historical Reenactments
Advisor: Larry Wolff

yma220@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East (Israel-Palestine)
Research Interests: History of Israel-Palestine; Zionism; ethnic politics; settlement enterprise; Mizrahi-Sephardi intellectual history
Advisor: Ronald Zweig

mam9961@nyu.edu
Field: Africa
Research Interests: Eunuchs in medieval West Africa and the western Mediterranean; the Songhay Empire; court ceremonial; codicology; power and legitimation in cross-cultural contact zones.
Advisor: Michael Gomez

bsm360@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History
Research Interests: Modern Iran and the Persian Gulf; Cold War revolution and state formation; material politics of religious revival
Advisor: Arang Keshavarzian

mmn8582@nyu.edu

Field: African history

Research Interests: West African history with a special focus on the relationship between West Africa and North Africa, especially through Islam and trade
Advisor: Michael Gomez

en2331@nyu.edu
Field: Ph.D. in French Studies/History
Research Interests: Immigration, education, nationality law, comparative history
Advisor: Ed Berenson

co612@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/History
Research Interests: Modern France, histories of feminisms, gender and sexuality, transnational cultural history, modernism, public history
Advisor: Ed Berenson

wa2120@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Afro-Muslim Community in Brazil; 20th Century West Africa and Brazil Relations; Slavery Memory; Black Islam; Atlantic History
Advisor: Michael Gomez

ojo2023@nyu.edu
Field: African History
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Anglophone West Africa; Nigeria; the Yorùbá; the African diaspora; cultural nationalism; pan-Africanism; West African print cultures; intellectual history; historiography
Advisor: Michael Gomez

jp7514@nyu.edu

Field: United States History

Research Interests: Asian America, Filipino and Southeast Asian Diaspora; U.S. Empire; Racial Formations; Women and Gender Studies; Migration and Labor; 20th-Century U.S
Advisor: Irvin Ibarguen & Adrian De Leon

alp9874@nyu.edu

Field: Modern Latin America (Central America)
Research Interests: Guatemala; Cold War; transnational Indigenous resistance; oral histories; genocide studies; politics of memory/popular memory; U.S. imperialism; women and gender studies
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson, Christy Thornton

yp2558@nyu.edu

Field: Modern Middle Eastern History - US 
Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies; environmental history; material culture; geography.
Advisor: Sara Pursley

inr218@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: 20th-century United States, conservative politics, urban policing, state violence, cultural history
Advisor: Kimberly Phillips-Fein

kar9533@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Latin American History
Research Interests: El Salvador, Central America, Oral History, Popular Memory, Relationship between Cold War Massacres and indigeneity
Advisor: Alejandro Velasco

ker9786@nyu.edu

Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Nineteenth century Britain and the British Empire, colonialism, gender and sexuality, liberalism, intellectual history, history of the social sciences, classical reception (particularly Greek), public history
Advisor: Ren Pepitone

gs2777@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Modern German and Italian History, War Studies, Mobility and Migration Studies, Cultural History, Transnational Knowledge Transfer, Holocaust Studies
Advisor: Larry Wolff & Ruth Ben-Ghiat

tes9700@nyu.edu

Field: Atlantic History
Research Interests: Transatlantic history, Slavery and kinship, 18th and 19th U.S. South and Caribbean, Afro-Atlantic religious cultures, waterways
Advisor: Jennifer Morgan, Nicole Eustace

yitzchak.schwartz@nyu.edu
Field: US History, History of New York City, American Religion
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century Religion, American Jewish History
Advisor: Hasia Diner

lss375@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: History of archaeology in modern Iraq; British empire; history of petroleum extraction; tourism, transportation, and colonial development; cultural history; history of the regional Arabic press
Advisor: Sara Pursley

ds6304@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Central Europe in the 20th Century; Intellectual Exchange between Central Europe and East Asia; Classical Music; German Imperialism and its Legacies
Advisor: Larry Wolff

ls5970@nyu.edu

Field: Early Modern Safavid and Ottoman Empires
Research Interests: Empires, Religion, Early Modernity, Body and Sexuality
Advisor: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

nd408@nyu.edu
Field: 20th Century United States History
Research Interests: Labor, Business, Housing
Advisor: Hasia Diner, Kim Phillips-Fein

aks9284@nyu.edu

Field: African History

Research Interests: West Africa, history of science and technology, African diaspora, Afro-Brazilian returnees, transnational Knowledge transfer, agricultural history, colonialism, spatial history, and African traditional healing practices
Advisor: Robyn d'Avignon, Michael Gomez

as11567@nyu.edu

Field: Modern Jewish History

Research Interests: Transnational Jewish history; diaspora nationalisms; history of capitalism; history of international development and humanitarianism
Advisor: Andrew Needham & Lila Corwin Berman

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tas600@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Austria-Hungary; 20th Century Central Europe and Hungary; Memory and Nationalist Narratives; Public History
Advisor: Larry Wolff

cat503@nyu.edu

Field: African Diaspora

Research Interests: Fashion history & theory, Paris, New York City, material culture, race, gender, race and identity in France vs US, archive building, erasure
Advisor: Audrey Célestine

ct2665@nyu.edu
Field: United States and Legal History
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Centuries, Voting Rights, Black and Indigenous histories
Advisor: Thomas Sugrue, Steve Hahn

jkw9555@nyu.edu
Field: African History/French Studies
Research Interests: 20th Century French West Africa; French Colonialism; Cold War; African Diaspora; Material Culture; Knowledge Production; History of Social Sciences; Cultural History; Gender History
Advisor: Edward Berenson

ayy236@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/History
Research Interests: Social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Trans-imperial history, Sufism, Urban and Spatial history, Digital Humanities
Advisor: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

jdw9457@nyu.edu
Field: 19th Century U.S.

Research Interests: Reconstruction, the U.S. South, political violence, race, gender, and capitalism

Advisor: Steven Hahn

smw641@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Race and Racisms in the Americas; Race, Ethnicity, and Identity; Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalisms; Race, Gender, and the Memory of Slavery in Afro-Colombian Social Movements
Advisor: Michael Gomez

Personal Website

kew476@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/History
Research Interests: First and Second World Wars, Alsace, postwar France, civic culture, regionalism, nationalism and citizenship
Advisor: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

sbw9438@nyu.edu
Field: United States History

Research Interests: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century North American History, Cultural history, History of Memory
Advisor: Nicole Eustace, Martha Hodes

mw5672@nyu.edu

Field: Environmental History

Research Interests: 19th-century American history; empire and colonialism; land and resource management; nature, culture, aesthetics; public history and museums
Advisor: Andrew Needham, Maria Montoya

caw606@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Advisor: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

daw496@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Post-Civil War South, Agricultural and Environmental History, Populism, Race, Land Tenure, the History of Capitalism, and Gender
Advisor: Steven Hahn

zcw214@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History
Research Interests: Modern Middle East History, Modern Iranian History, Modern Turkish History, Histories of Race and Slavery, Ottoman History, Comparative Histories of Africa and Middle East
Advisor: Michael Gomez

rbzw@nyu.edu
Field: United States History
Research Interests: Immigration, Global Migrations, Empire, Long 19th Century, Public History and Digital Humanities
Advisor: Kevin Kenny

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