Gabriel Rom is a PhD candidate in Jewish History. His research focuses on the history of European political thought and the relationship between language and law. His dissertation examines the shifting interpretations of the Old Testament and Mosaic Law from the Enlightenment into the Romantic era. He is also interested in theories of exile, statelessness, and poetics examined from a distinctly Eastern European perspective.
Before Yale, he graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A. in Political Science. He then spent six years as a journalist, first in Warsaw, Poland, and then in New York City and its suburbs. In 2022, he earned an M.A. in European and Russian Studies from Yale, where he wrote a dissertation on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s interpretation of Moses in his Considerations on The Government of Poland. His 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.
At Yale, Gabriel helps run the Jewish Studies Colloquium, the Modern European Colloquium, along with the Histories of Sovereignty working group.
He welcomes any questions about (but not limited to!) the graduate program in History at Yale.