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
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Mohamed Abdou
Jehad Abusalim
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 Adrianzen Ponce
cayetana.ap@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Research Interests: Andean history, state formation, race and indigeneity, critical geography
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein
Folarin Ajibade
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
Samar Al-Saleh
Research Interests: Twentieth-century Palestine; Colonial imprisonment; labor history; Marxism and political economy; Imperialism and settler-colonialism
Advisor: Zachary Lockman
Eric Anderson
ela298@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson
Alperen Arslan
alperen.arslan@nyu.edu
Field: History of Science and Medicine & Transregional History
Research Interests: History of Earth and Environmental Sciences; trans&post-imperial histories of science in the context of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires; social and environmental histories of energy; the history of climate science; Science and the Nation & Race in Western Eurasia
Advisor: Stephen Gross
Onat Ozan Ata
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
Arash Azizi
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
Madison Bastress
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
Melanie Bavaria
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
Gavin Beinart-Smollan
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
Robert Bell
rjb487@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East History
Research Interests: History of U.S.-Iranian Relations, 20th Century Iranian History, America in the World, Modern Middle East History, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Diplomatic History, Empire and Colonialism, Political-Eonomy, International Development
Advisor: Arang Keshavarzian
Keren Ben-Horin
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
Ilan Benattar
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
Tova Benjamin
tpb254@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Jewish History, Modern Europe, Political Economy
Research Interests: History of the Black Sea grain trade; commercial capitalism; the history of global trade and capitalism; Jewish economic life in imperial and Revolutionary Russia; histories of anti-Jewish violence; Yiddish studies
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis, Gennady Estraikh
Benjamin Berman-Gladstone
bg1816@nyu.edu
Field: Israel Studies
Research Interests: Mizrahi and Sephardi histories, migration and refugee histories, 'Adeni and Yemeni history, Zionist thought, nationalism and narrative construction, colonialism and resistance, British empire, African diaspora, Indian Ocean and Red Sea history, and the role of religion and secularism in state-building
Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Ronald Zweig
Faris Bin Joraimi
mb8865@nyu.edu
Field: Early Modern Islamic World
Research Interests: Malay World, Indian Ocean, port-cities, temporality, narrativity, leisure
Advisor: Ismail Fajrie Alatas
Hadas Binyamini
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
Micah Blaichman
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
Nuala Caomhanach
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
Jack Casey
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
Roman Chacon
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
Idan Chazan
ic2497@nyu.edu
Field: Israel Studies
Research Interests: Mizrahi culture and history, Middle East migration and refugee histories, the history of Israel/Palestine, ethnic politics
Advisor: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Lihi Ben Shitrit
Brendan Collins Jordan
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
Paloma Contreras
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
Zachary Cuyler
zdc204@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History
Advisor: Zachary Lockman
Fatma Deniz
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
Marc Dorpema
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
Dennis Duennwald
dd3578@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Economic Crises, History of Capitalism and Economic History, Environmental History, Modern Germany
Advisor: Stephen Gross
Erica Duncan
end253@nyu.edu
Field: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Slavery, Kinship, Childhood, Black Feminism and Queer of Color Critique
Advisor: Jennifer Morgan
Marek Eby
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
Zachary Endter
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
Guy Erez
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
Ana Gabriella Fasold Berges
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
Drew Fedorka
dmf457@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/History
Research Interests: 20th Century France, mass consumer culture, global sixties, transatlantic history
Advisor: Edward Berenson
Dalil Ferguenis
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
Benjamin Fogel
bgf224@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein
Zingha Foma
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
Aaron Forman
alf9559@nyu.edu
Field: Medieval History
Research Interests: Medieval Mediterranean, interconnectivity, cultural interaction, Jewish communities
Advisor: Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
Ben Francis
bwf9887@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: The history of modern Britain and its links with the wider world; urban history and theory
Advisor: Guy Ortolano
Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido
bg2533@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & the Caribbean
Research Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Granada/Colombia and the larger Atlantic; history of political economy, Catholicism and Catholic thought, social and intellectual history, critical theory
Advisor: Sinclair Thomson
Roberto Ganau
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
Ellis Garey
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
Alejandro Gerena Ortiz
amg9647@nyu.edu
Field: Caribbean History and French Studies
Research Interests: Colonial and post-colonial Caribbean History, using knowledge of Spanish and French to further the conversation of Pan-Caribbean history that unites the region rather than fragmentize it to imperial standards
Advisor: Edward Berenson, Audrey Celestine
Andrew Gerstenberger
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
Faris Giacaman
fg734@nyu.edu
Field: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies/History
Advisor: Zachary Lockman
Taylor Gombos
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
Dotan Greenvald
dg2470@nyu.edu
Field: Hebrew & Judaic Studies/History
Advisor: Ronald Zweig
Garrett Gutierrez
grg324@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Urban/Suburban history; race & ethnicity; informal economy; political economy
Advisor: Thomas Sugrue
Isaac Hand
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
Hilary Handin
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
Anne Hollmuller
alh650@nyu.edu
Field: French Studies
Research Interests: Cultural politics, decolonizing museums, colonial history, museum studies
Advisor: Stephane Gerson
Xinyi Hu
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
Helen Isaac
hhi203@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Advisor: Ada Ferrer
Jonah Inserra
jri225@nyu.edu
Field: French Empire
Research Interests: Franco-Soviet Relations in 20th C. West Africa, Haiti in the Carribean, Decoloniality, Political Economy of Formerly Colonized States, Russian History
Advisor: Ed Berenson
Hazem Jamjoum
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
Saleema Josey
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
Dominique Jean-Louis
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
Daniel Joslyn
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
Andrew Kaiser
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
Tanvi Kapoor
tk2220@nyu.edu
Field: African History
Research Interests: Swahili Coast, historical memory, health and healing, time, Islam
Advisor: Julie Livingston
Anirban Karak
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
Jonas Knatz
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
Ivan Kostin
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
Charmaine Lam
chl6929@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Britain and Empire, Modern China, and Transnational History
Research Interests: Migration and Labor; Gender and Family; Treaty Port Cities; Colonial Identity Formation; British-Chinese Entanglements
Advisor: Ren Pepitone
Ritika Lal
rl3867@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: Modern Middle East history; political economy; transnational histories
Advisor: Sara Pursley
Alexander Langstaff
al5348@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Advisor: Larry Wolff
Hannah Leffingwell
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
Gabe Levine-Drizin
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
Jeremy Lin
jkl317@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Advisor: Larry Wolff
Emily Long
esl392@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Late 19th and early 20th century Germany, Intellectual History, Continental Philosophy, Poetics, Music History and Theory, Systems Theory; special focus on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger
Advisor: Stefanos Geroulanos
Claudia Lonkin
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
Shiyong Lu
sl7794@nyu.edu
Field: Hebrew and Judaic Studies/History
Research Interests: American Jewish History, History of immigration in 20th century US; food studies; Women and gender history; Asian AmericanStudies
Advisor: Hasia Diner, Kevin Kenny
Natalia Mahecha-Arango
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 Mark
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
Katherine McLeod
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
Matyas Mervay
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
Veronique Mickisch
vsm281@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Europe
Research Interests: Soviet and Russian history, Jewish history, Marxism, political economy
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis
Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
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
Mathilde Montpetit
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
Bita Mousavi
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
Sanyu Mulira
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
Wendi Muse
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
Emma Novak
en2331@nyu.edu
Field: Institute of French Studies/History
Research Interests: French History, Colonial History, History of Education, Legal History, tensions between legal policy and culture
Advisor: Ed Berenson
Caitlin O'Keefe
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
José Octavio Orsag Molina
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
Waldemar Oliveira
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
Oluwatomisin (Tomi) Onabanjo
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
Miriam Pensack
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
Sam Prendergast
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
Imani Radney
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
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
Kevin Ramirez
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
Clare Richfield
cjr431@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. history, social movement activism, gender and the body, cultural history
Advisor: Thomas Sugrue
Mike Rivas Fernandez
mr6577@nyu.edu
Field: Urban United States
Research Interests: U.S. Immigration; Gender and Sexuality; Turn of the 20th-century New York; Queer Migrations; Urban subcultures
Advisor: Kevin Kenny, Michele Mitchell
Kateryna Ruban
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
Jeffrey Rubel
jnr8362@nyu.edu
Field: United States History, History of Science
Research Interests: 20th century American history, history of science and technology, material culture, cultural history, history of education, theater history, food studies, media studies
Advisor: Andrew Needham, Karl Appuhn
Elvan Sahin
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
Michael Salgarolo
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
Giulio Salvati
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
Yitzchak Schwartz
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
Shavagne Scott
ss10070@nyu.edu
Field: Atlantic World
Advisor: Jennifer Morgan
Laith Shakir
lss375@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: History of archaeology and tourism in modern Iraq
Advisor: Sara Pursley
Daniel Shao
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
Natalia Shevin
nd408@nyu.edu
Field: 20th Century United States History
Research Interests: Labor, Business, Housing
Advisor: Hasia Diner, Kim Phillips-Fein
Kyle Shybunko
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
Sarah Sklaw
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
Kevin Slack
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
Thomas Szigeti
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
Colleen Tompkins
ct2665@nyu.edu
Field: 20th Century United States History
Research Interests: Legal History; Voting Rights; African American History; Residential Segregation
Advisor: Thomas Sugrue
Christopher Van Demark
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
Sven van Mourik
svm283@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Research Interests: Global financial systems, development economics of the IMF and the World Bank, North-South relations, the history of (Afro-)European integration
Advisor: Yanni Kotsonis
Olga Verlato
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
Samantha Wagner
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
Cassie Washington
caw606@nyu.edu
Field: Modern European History
Advisor: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Rachel Welsh
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
Jack West
jdw9457@nyu.edu
Field: United States
Research Interests: U.S. South, Reconstruction, Political Violence, Abolition-Democracy, Race, Capitalism, and Fascism
Advisor: Steven Hahn
Dante Whittaker
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
Cody Williams
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
Sonya Williams
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
Zavier Wingham
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
Julia Woods
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
Kelly Wood
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
Emma Young
eky218@nyu.edu
Field: Latin America & Caribbean
Research Interests: Modern Brazil, urban environmental history, political ecology, state formation
Advisor: Barbara Weinstein
Gabriel Young
gjy211@nyu.edu
Field: Modern Middle East
Research Interests: Agrarian change; state formation; social theory
Advisor: Zachary Lockman
Ahmet Yusuf Yuksek
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
R. Bryan Zehngut-Willits
rbzw@nyu.edu
Field: United States History
Research Interests: Long Nineteenth Century, Immigration, Global Migrations, US Empire, Public History, Digital Humanities
Advisor: Kevin Kenny
Yuhang Zhu
yz4929@nyu.edu
Field: East Asia
Research Interests: Modern China, gender studies, women's history
Advisor: Rebecca Karl