Jacob Remes is clinical associate professor of history in NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he directs the Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies. He is the co-editor, with Andy Horowitz, of Critical Disaster Studies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and the author of Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (University of Illinois Press, 2016). He is a founding member of the editorial collective of the Journal of Disaster Studies and a co-editor of the Penn Press book series Critical Studies of Risk and Disaster. Trained as a labor and working-class historian, he is on the organizing and bargaining committees of Contract Faculty United-UAW, the union of continuing contract faculty at NYU.