Randal Grant Kleiser (Grant) is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia studying commerce and commercial reforms in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. He is currently working on a dissertation that explores the origins of the Spanish, British, and French free...

Aleksandra Jakubczak is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of Jewish history. Her interests include the social and economic history of modern Jewry; migration; transnational history, gender, and sexuality; and Eastern European Jewish women’s history. Her dissertation,...

Andrei Guadarrama is a P.h.D. candidate in history at Columbia University. He is interested in the political economy of urban infrastructure and the reproduction of inequality in modern cities. His dissertation, “Circuits of Power: Urban Entrepreneurs, Transportation,...