Jacob Remes
Jacob Remes

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Jacob Remes is a historian of modern North America with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration. He is a founding co-editor of the <em>Journal of Disaster Studies</em>, the co-editor, with Andy Horowitz, of<em> Critical Disaster Studies</em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), and a series co-editor of the Penn Press book series<em> Critical Studies of Risk and Disaster.</em> His first book, <em>Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era </em>(University of Illinois Press, 2016) examined the working class response to and experience of the Salem, Massachusetts, Fire of 1914 and the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Explosion of 1917. He has also written scholarly articles on a variety of other subjects ranging from interwar Social Catholicism to Indigenous land rights to transnational printers in the 19th century. His popular writing on subjects relating to his research has appeared in the <em>Nation, Atlantic, Time, Salon, </em>and elsewhere. Before coming to Gallatin,
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