PhD Program
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Europe
- Latin America and Caribbean
- Medicine
- Migration/Diaspora
- State, Politics, and Law
Major and Minor Fields
Major
- Modern European History
Minor 1
Latin America in Transnational Perspective
Minor 2
Law, Science and Ideas in an Imperial Order
Biography
David is currently a PhD candidate in German and Transnational History at the History Department. David's dissertation investigates the intersection of botanical knowledge and law in an imperial and global context. In particular, David is interested in understanding how Prussia, Bavaria, and the Austrian Empire engaged in projects of informal imperialism in Brasil and Mexico through scientific expeditions and overseas legal practices during the XIX century. David works under the supervision of Jennifer Jenkins, William Nelson, Kevin Coleman, and Eric Jennings. He can conduct research in Spanish, English, German, French, and Portuguese.
Awards
- 2021 Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Fellowship
- 2021 DAAD Research Grant - Doctoral Programs Long-Term
- 2020 Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES) Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2019 Ed and Fran Sonshine Graduate Scholarship
- 2019 Peggy Colston Memorial Scholarship
- 2018 Salo W. and Jeannette M. Student Research Grant
- 2018 William and Miriam Horowitz and David and Iris Fischer Judaica Project Funds Grant Yalel University
- 2018 European Studies Council Language Study Grant Yale University
- 2018 Max Kade Summer Language Study Grant Yale University
- 2018 Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, Culture Grant YIVO
- 2017 Yale European Studies Council Fellowship Yale University
- 2012 Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Academic Fellowship Yale University Tecnológico de Monterrey
Education
MA, Yale University
BA, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Cohort
- 2019-2020