Doctoral Student Profiles

msa422@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle Eastern History
Research Interests: Nexus of religion and capitalism in the administration of Islamic endowments and other forms of property in the modern Middle East; intersection of morality, politics, and environmental policies in the Ottoman Empire; histories of capitalism and gender; comparative histories of empires and their Muslim populations
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

ja1703@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East (Palestine-Israel)
Research Interests: History of Palestine and Israel; Zionist-Arab Encounter; Pre-1948 Arab and Palestinian Responses to Zionism; History of the Gaza District/Strip
Advisor: Ronald Zweig

cayetana.ap@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Research Interests: Andean history, state formation, race and indigeneity, critical geography
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein

fa1193@nyu.edu
Field: African History
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century West Africa, history of 'popular' culture, economic history, urban history, political economy
Advisor: Michael Gomez

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

aa5856@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: Iran and the Arab World, Iraq, Cold War, Global Sixties, History of the Left, Communism, History of Islamists, Global History
Advisor: Zachary Lockman
 

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mjb920@nyu.edu
Field: Atlantic history
Research Interests: Eighteenth-century North American history, Native American history, histories of race, gender, place, and food sovereignty
Advisor: Nicole Eustace

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: America in the World, Modern Middle East History, U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S.-Iranian Relations, 20th Century Iranian History, Diplomatic History, Empire and Colonialism, Political-Economy, International Development
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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imb280@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Jewish History, Modern Middle East History

Research Interests: History of Jewish Communities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Jewish Intellectual History, Ottoman History, Class Politics, Minority Politics, Multilingualism, 

Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, David Engel

tpb254@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Jewish History, Late Imperial Russian and Early Soviet History
Research Interests: The political economy of Russia during the Revolutionary years; the history of global trade and capitalism; Jewish economic life; Yiddish studies
Advisor: Gennady Estraikh

mb8865@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern Islamic World
Research Interests: Malay World, Indian Ocean, port-cities, temporality, narrativity, leisure
Advisor: Ismail Fajrie Alatas 

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

nfc231@nyu.edu
Field: History of Science

Research Interests: Modern Madagascar, History of Conservation Science, Political Ecology, History of Phylogenetics, Plant Studies, Development economics of the World Bank, Museum Collections, Gender, and Empire
Advisor: Karl Appuhn

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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brendan.jordan@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Research Interests: Central American History, Popular Revolution, Environmental Disasters & Migration, Religion & the Catholic Church, U.S. empire
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson

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

zdc204@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

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

md4458@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: The intersection of environmental history and the history of capitalism, with a substantive focus, for now, on contemporary Europe
Advisor: Stephen Gross

end253@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Slavery, Kinship, Childhood, Black Feminism and Queer of Color Critique
Advisor: Jennifer Morgan

mre287@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Soviet Union and Central Asia; history of the state and socialist state-building; history of medicine and public health; interwar empires and internationalisms
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis
 

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ge2109@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern Europe
Research Interests: Animal history, environmental history, Early Modern France, economic and social history, urban history
Advisor: Karl Appuhn

afb384@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Research Interests: Dominican History, U.S.-Latin American relations, international development, Cold War, and agrarian reform
Advisor: Ada Ferrer

dmf457@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/History
Research Interests: 20th Century France, mass consumer culture, global sixties, transatlantic history
Advisor: Edward Berenson

bgf224@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein

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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alf9559@nyu.edu
Field: Medieval History
Research Interests: Jewish history, medieval Mediterranean, interconnectivity, diaspora
Advisor: Brigitte Bedos-Rezak

bwf9887@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: The history of modern Britain and its links with the wider world; urban and architectural history; historical approaches to 'modernity' and 'the future'.
Advisor: Guy Ortolano

bg2533@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & the Caribbean
Research Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Granada/Colombia
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson

rg3705@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern Europe
Research Interests: Bankruptcy and its cultural, moral, and economics aspects; intellectual and cultural history; political economy; legal history; history of capitalism
Advisor: John Shovlin

ellis@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East History
Research Interests: Political economy, labor history, migration, anti-colonialism, social and intellectual histories of capitalism, Ottoman and post-Ottoman 19th and 20th century Greater Syria
Advisor: Zachary Lockman, Andrew Sartori

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

tjg353@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: 19th-20th Century Central and Eastern Europe, The Interwar Period, Late-Habsburg Empire, Hungary, Refugee Studies, The Cold War, History of Technology
Advisor: Larry Wolff

dg2470@nyu.edu
Field: Hebrew & Judaic Studies/History
Advisor: Ronald Zweig

grg324@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Urban/Suburban history; race & ethnicity; informal economy; political economy
Advisor: Thomas Sugrue

inh206@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: Urban History, Intellectual History, Municipal Governance, late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican History
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

hsh294@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Twentieth-century France, Second World War and reconstruction, population displacement, gender and sexuality, memory
Advisor: Stephane Gerson
 

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alh650@nyu.edu
Field: French Studies
Research Interests: Cultural politics, decolonizing museums, colonial history, museum studies
Advisor: Stephane Gerson

hhi203@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Advisor: Ada Ferrer

hj529@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History
Research Interests: Political economy of cultural production; cultural politics/imperialism; commodity history; Egypt and Pan-Arab nationalism 1882-1952
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

skj7947@nyu.edu
Field: Atlantic History
Research Interests: Eighteenth-century and Early Nineteenth century US History, Race and Identity, Epistolary Correspondence, Public History
Advisor: Jennifer Morgan

djl424@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: History of education, post-1965 immigration, NYC history, the NYC borough of Queens, oral history, public history
Advisor: Jonathan Zimmerman

daj334@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Socialism, Sexuality, New Religious Movements, Race and Whiteness, Long Nineteenth Century, Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Advisor: Martha Hodes
 

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akj684@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern European History
Research Interests: Quarantine and Technologies of Prophylaxis, Historical Epidemiology, Christian-Muslim Encounters in Europe, Intersections of Religious Thought and Environmental World
Advisor: Larry Wolff

tk2220@nyu.edu
Field: African History
Research Interests: Swahili Coast, historical memory, health and healing, time, Islam
Advisor: Julie Livingston

ak5982@nyu.edu
Field: South Asian History
Research Interests: Modern and Early Modern South Asia, history of capitalism, intellectual history, history of economic thought, social theory
Advisor: Andrew Sartori
 

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

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igk211@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Soviet History, History of the Russian Revolution, Nationalism and Socialism, Russian Avant-garde, History of Social Experiments, History of Utopian Thought
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis
 

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chl6929@nyu.edu
Field: British, Chinese, and Transnational History
Research Interests: British imperial history in East and Southeast Asia; Chinese migration and labor; Gender history; Socio-cultural colonial legacies
Advisor: Guy Ortolano, Rebecca Karl

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

hrl260@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/History
Research Interests: Twentieth-century queer history, history of feminism(s), transnational lesbian social movements, ecofeminism, Franco-American feminist alliances
Advisor: Michele Mitchell

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

jkl317@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Advisor: Larry Wolff

esl392@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Germany; Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, Richard Wagner, Stefan George, Carl Schmitt
Advisor: Stefanos Geroulanos

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

sl7794@nyu.edu
Field: Hebrew and Judaic Studies/History
Research Interests: American Jewish History, History of immigration in 20th century US; food studies; Asian Studies
Advisor: 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, history of Zionist thought, Jewish-Arab relations and intellectual exchange
Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

kfm240@nyu.edu
Field: Environmental History
Research Interests: Environmental History; Environmental conservation in the U.S. & Caribbean; Zoo & animal studies; History of ecology; Empire; Settler colonialism; Public history
Advisor: Karl Appuhn
 

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mm9047@nyu.edu
Field: East Asian History
Research Interests: Austria-Hungary and China; Central Europe and the Far East; Treaty Port communities; Habsburg Imperialism; Expatriate communities; Refugees and migrations
Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
 

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vsm281@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Soviet and Russian history, Jewish history, Marxism, political economy
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis
 

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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: Medieval West Africa and the western Mediterranean; clothing and textiles; eunuchs and women; court ceremonial; 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

srm528@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Francophone history, Women's history in Black Atlantic; Martinique, Guadeloupe, Senegal, 20th Century, Literary/Cultural Movements
Advisor: Michael Gomez

wmm221@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Brazil, Lusophone Africa, south-south political & intellectual exchange, Cold War Era Latin America & Africa, Left organizing & media
Advisor: Michael Gomez

joo244@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & the Caribbean
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century, colonization of indigenous territories in the continental Amazon forest, environmental history and relations with territories, the links between Nation-States export economies and colonization
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson

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: Modern West Africa, cultural and social histories, intellectual history, national and racial identity formation, Third-Worldism, questions of Otherness
Advisor: Michael Gomez

mrp348@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Interests: Cold War in Latin America, especially Cuban foreign policy; U.S.-Latin American Relations; forms of resistance to U.S. empire; intellectual history
Advisor: Ada Ferrer

sjp587@nyu.edu
Field: US/Indigenous
Research Interests: Māori history; Indigenous studies; Pacific studies; settler colonialism; US empire; oral history and ethnography
Advisor: Monica Kim

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

john.raimo@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Cultural history, Eastern and Western European relations, history of the book, intellectual history
Advisor: Stefanos Geroulanos
 

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kar9533@nyu.edu
Field: Latin American History
Research Interests: El Salvador, Central America, Migration, Oral History, Popular Memory, Relationship between Cold War massacres and indigeneity, U.S. Intervention in Latin America
Advisor: Alejandro Velasco

cjr431@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. history, social movement activism, gender and the body, cultural history
Advisor: Linda Gordon

mr6577@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Intersectional identities; U.S. immigration; Gilded Age & Progressive era New York City 
Advisor: Kevin Kenny

kr1086@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Soviet Union and Soviet Ukraine, Marxism; gender, the body, and medicine; post-Soviet memory politics and urban transformations
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis

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es2265@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/History
Research Interests: Urban and Environmental History, Childhood and Children's History; Children in the City, Modern France (19th - 20th Centuries)
Advisor: Stephane Gerson

mls850@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: U.S. Empire, Asian American Studies, Slavery and Emancipation, U.S. South, Whiteness Studies
Advisor: Martha Hodes
 

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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

as7415@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Migration and displacement in 20th-century Europe, internationalisms, history of the social sciences, mechanisms of classification and categorization
Advisor: Stefanos Geroulanos
 

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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

ss10070@nyu.edu
Field: Atlantic World
Advisor: Jennifer Morgan

lss375@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: History of archaeology and tourism in modern Iraq
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

nd408@nyu.edu
Field: United States History
Research Interests: Labor history, labor diplomacy, late twentieth century Jewish History
Advisor: Hasia Diner

kss284@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Europe and America in the Twentieth Century; History of Democratization; Comparative Histories of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century
Advisor: Stephan Gross

sls823@nyu.edu
Field: U.S. in the World
Research Interests: Nicaragua, International Development, Women and Gender, Structural Adjustment Programs, Global Cold War, Migration
Advisor: Monica Kim

kms945@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Suburban History; Metropolitan Segregation; 20th Century U.S. Political History; Progressive-era Suburban Development
Advisor: Thomas Sugrue

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

cmv352@nyu.edu
Field: Modern East/Central European History
Research Interests: History of Childhood/Education; Transatlantic History, Nationalism, Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Habsburg Monarchy and Successor States, Transnational History
Advisor: Larry Wolff

svm293@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Global financial systems, development economics of the World Bank and the IMF, North-South relations, the history of (Afro-)European integration and the political economy of austerity
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis
 

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ov308@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle Eastern History
Research Interests: Modern Egypt and the Mediterranean; history of language ideology and multilingualism from the late Ottoman period to the early twentieth century; history of education and the press; Italian communities of Egypt
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

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

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

rqw203@nyu.edu
Field: Medieval Europe
Research Interests: Medieval Iberia, legal and intellectual history, women's and gender history, history of the body
Advisor: Karl Appuhn

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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

cw3228@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Interests: Late-twentieth century Brazil; Labor and the Working Class; Disability and Debility; Social history of Public Health; Gender; Capitalism
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein

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

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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

jkw9555@nyu.edu
Field: African History/French Studies
Research Interests: Francophone West Africa; French Colonialism; 19th and 20th Century African History; African Diaspora; Slavery; Material Culture
Advisor: Edward Berenson, Michael Gomez

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

eky218@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Research Interests: Modern Brazil, urban environmental history, political ecology, state formation
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein

gjy211@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: Urban history, critical geography, Marxist social theory
Advisor: Zachary Lockman

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

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

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yz4929@nyu.edu
Field: East Asia
Research Interests: Modern China, gender studies, women's history
Advisor: Rebecca Karl