Gabriel Rom

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, Gabriel 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. Gabriel’s 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.

Gabriel helps run 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.

More information on Gabriel’s work can be found at www.gabrielrom.com

Department: Jewish History