Noah Gelfand

PhD, New York University

Noah L. Gelfand is a Doctoral Lecturer at Hunter College, where he teaches the first half of the US history survey, as well as courses on Colonial America, the American Revolution, and American Indian history. He earned a BA in History from the University of Connecticut, an MA in US History from San Francisco State University, and a PhD in Atlantic History and US History to 1877 from New York University in 2008.

Noah has received numerous awards, including a Quinn Foundation fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and a Touro National Heritage Trust fellowship from the John Carter Brown Library. He has published several articles and book chapters, including “Jacob Leisler: A Life and Death in the Atlantic World, 1640-1691,” in The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World and “To Live and Trade: The Status of Sephardi Mercantile Communities in the Atlantic Word During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in Caribbean Jewry. His current book project explores the intersection of religion and commerce in the Jewish Atlantic world during the early modern era.

Contact
Email: ngelfand@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5486