Clinical Associate Professor and Founding Director for the Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies, New York University

Dr. Jacob Remes is a Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and founding director of its Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies. He is a historian of modern North America with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration.

He is an expert on the response of workers and unions to disaster. He has won the Gutman and Forsey Prizes in labor and working-class history; is a past executive secretary of the Labor and Working-Class History Association; and has been the William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow at Harvard, a Josephine de Karman Fellow, and an American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellow.

He recently finished a three-year term on the board of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and is on the editorial board of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History.