Gabriel Rom

I’m a PhD candidate in Jewish History. My research focuses on the history of European political thought and the relationship between language and law. My dissertation examines the shifting interpretations of the Old Testament and Mosaic Law from the Enlightenment into the Romantic era. I’m also interested in theories of exile, statelessness, and poetics examined from a distinctly Eastern European perspective.

 

Before Yale, I graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A. in Political Science. I then spent six years as a journalist, first in Warsaw, Poland, and then in New York City and its suburbs. In 2022, I earned an M.A. in European and Russian Studies from Yale, where I wrote a dissertation on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s interpretation of Moses in his Considerations on The Government of Poland. My public writing has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The European Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, and K Revue, among others.

 

I also help run the Modern European Colloquium along with the Histories of Sovereignty working group.

 

I welcome any questions about (but not limited to!) the graduate program in History at Yale.

 

More information on my work can be found at www.gabrielrom.com