About My Work
I'm currently writing a dissertation that follows the nineteenth and early twentieth grain trade in Black Sea cities of the Russian empire, the disproportionate place of the empire's Jewish population in the trade, and political reactions to both real and imagined Jewish predominance. In my research, I tell two parallel stories of political economy, and popular violence, tracing the capitalist transformation of the Russian empire's trade and its increasing integration into the world market from 1861 onward, and the concurrent explosions of anti-Jewish violence in key port cities in 1871, 1881, and 1905. A large part of my research considers the impact of the world market on local conditions, and I would be thrilled to be in conversation with historians working in urban history with a global perspective.