Ferrante, Matteo-Elijah

Elijah Ferrante is a PhD student in Modern European History. His research interests focus on the histories of psychiatry, medicine, care, and religion in Western Europe. He is developing a thesis project on the growth of transcultural psychiatry and therapeutic approaches to displaced people, labour migrants, and refugees in divided and reunified Germany. He is one of the co-convenors of the International History Workshop AY 2024-6.
 
His other research projects have focused on the histories of disability and medical solidarity in East Germany and the wider socialist and non-aligned world, as well as the gendered histories of care and welfare services for single mothers in Britain and West Germany. He has presented this research at conferences at the University of Cambridge and the European Conference on African Studies. 
 
Before starting his PhD at Columbia, Elijah completed an MSt. in Modern European History and a BA in History at the University of Oxford.