Peter Gaber earned his BA in Economics-Political Science and History from Columbia University in 2021. His undergraduate honors thesis, which received the Undergraduate Education Committee Prize, studied French political thought before the May 1968 protests. After graduating, he spent a year doing public service with AmeriCorps in a rural public defenders’ office. Following this, Peter served as Executive Officer of Harvard’s Applied History Project and Research Assistant to Professor Graham Allison at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research focused on the history of American foreign relations, domestic politics, and international history from 1870-present.
Peter’s primary research interests lie in the history of world order, international thought, and economic history. He is currently a Graduate Researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations, working under Benn Steil in International Economic History on a book project that examines the history of globalization after World War II.
