History Welcomes Dr. Paul Kershaw

The History Faculty welcomes Paul Kershaw, assistant professor, to our department in January 2020. Paul is a familiar face to many of us. For the past three years, he has been a visiting assistant professor at Wayne, teaching courses in the history of U.S. foreign policy, the history of capitalism, and in contemporary United States history. He is a graduate of New York University, where he wrote his dissertation, "Arrested Development: Postwar Growth Crisis and Neoliberalism in the US and Mexico, 1971-1978," with the late historian Marilyn Young as his advisor. A postdoctoral fellow at the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History in 2015-2016, he currently is revising his dissertation for publication. Paul has a background as a mechanical engineer, earning degrees from Boston University (B.S.) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S.), and working as an aviation engineer before returning to graduate school in history at NYU. He joins the department at an exciting time for the graduate program, and his courses fill an important niche in our graduate and undergraduate curriculum. Welcome, Paul.