Editors

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Michael Goebel

Michael Goebel is Einstein Professor of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of several works on Atlantic histories of migration and of Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism. He holds a PhD from University College London and previously worked at the European University Institute, Florence; Harvard University; and Geneva Graduate Institute.

Tracy Neumann

Tracy Neumann is the co-coordinator of the Global Urban History Project and the author of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America and of essays on urban history and public policy. She received her PhD from New York University, and she has held fellowships at the University of Michigan and Harvard University.

Joseph Ben Prestel

Joseph Ben Prestel is a historian of Europe and the Middle East at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910. Joseph received his PhD in history from FU Berlin in 2015. Before joining FU’s history department, he held a position at the research center ‘History of Emotions’ at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. During the academic year 2018-19, he is a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University.

Maytal Mark (Associate Editor)

Maytal Mark is a doctoral student in History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. She works on Middle Eastern Jewish intellectual history in the modern period. She received her BA from Northwestern University and her MA from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Former Editors

Antonio Carbone is a historian working in the fields of Latin American, global history, and urban history. He currently teaches and researches at German Historical Institute in Rome. He co-edited the blog until 2016.