Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Daniel Kanhofer is a PhD candidate in Department of History. Focusing on early America and the Atlantic world, his research interests include empire, political economy, and the cultural politics of postcolonial societies. He received his BA in History from the University of Delaware in 2007 and is also a past coordinator of the Atlantic World Workshop at NYU. He is currently at work on his dissertation, “‘The Chimerical Scheme of a Canal’: Controlling Land, Water, and People in Mid-Atlantic North America, 1720-1830.” It examines cultures of waterway improvement and canal building in British America and the early United States, particularly their relationship to imperial governance and to post-Revolutionary US cultural and economic dependence on the British empire. In the 2014-15 academic year, Daniel will join the Humanities Initiative as an honorary fellow and will also hold an NYU Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in History.