Barnard-Columbia Urban Studies

Rohit Aggarwala

Raggarwala@cityhall.nyc.gov

EDUCATION

Columbia University
Ph.D., US History, May 2002
Dissertation: "Seat of Empire: New York, Philadelphia, and the Emergence of an American Metropolis, 1776-1837." Advisor: Professor Kenneth T. Jackson
M.Phil., US History, February 1998
M.B.A., Finance, May 2000
BA, History, magna cum laude, Columbia College, May 1993
Honors Thesis: "The Hudson River Railroad and the Development of Irvington, New York, 1849-1860"

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
MA., Canadian History, November 1996
Thesis: "American Trade and Urban Dominance in Upper Canada, 1830-1850."

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Chants Plutocratic: Four Books on New York City's Commercial Elites," review essay, Journal of Urban History, May 2005 (vol. 31, no. 4), 554-564.

"'Non-Resident Me': John Bartlett Brebner, Nationalism, and the Canadian Historical Profession," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, new series 10 (1999).

"What Does New York City Say?," review of Gotham: A History of New York to 1898, by Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, and American Metropolis: A History of New York City, by George J. Lankevich, H-Urban (e-mail list), American Historical Association, February 1999.

"Infrastructure," in "Research Problem Statements on Intercity Passenger Rail," Transportation Research Circular 490, Transportation Research Board (National Research Council), Washington, D.C., January 1999.

"The States, New Modes, and Federal Transportation Policy: Lessons from History for High Speed Rail," Transportation Quarterly, Summer 1998.

"The Hudson River Railroad and the Development of Irvington, New York, 1849-1860," Hudson Valley Regional Review, September 1993.