Faculty Member, Public Affairs
Assistant professor and mentor
Brooklyn Unit, Metropolitan Center
Thesis Title: Cities of Comrades: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State
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About
Jacob Remes is mentor and assistant professor of public affairs at SUNY Empire State College, located at the Brooklyn Unit of the Metropolitan Center. He received his Ph.D. in history from Duke University in 2010. He studies the working-class and labor history of North America, with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration. His manuscript, titled “Cities of Comrades: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State” examines the overlapping responses of individuals, families, civil society, and the state to the Salem, Mass., Fire of 1914, and the Halifax, N.S., Explosion of 1917. He is past executive secretary of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and was a Josephine de Karman Fellow, a University Scholar, a Kenan Center for Ethics Graduate Colloquium Fellow, and an American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellow. He received his B.A. in history from Yale University in 2002 and a M.A. in history from Duke in 2006.
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