2009-10 Kenan Graduate Colloquium Fellow
History

Phone: 202-468-7616
Email: jacob.remes@duke.edu

Postal Address:
Box 90719
Durham, NC 27708

Jacob Remes is a 2009-10 Kenan Graduate Colloquium Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at Duke University. He studies the working-class and labor history of North America, with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Relief and Resistance: 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 is a 2009 Josephine de Karman Fellow and a University Scholar. He received his B.A. in history from Yale University in 2002 and a M.A. in history from Duke in 2006.