Dr. Gabriel is a native of Santa Cruz, California, location for the cult teen vampire flick The Lost Boys, home of the Mystery Spot and the amazing sushi bar Pink Godzilla, and epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It is a community in which hippies, yuppies, surfers, pagans, college students, Mexican immigrants, and blue-collar workers mix in surprising ways. 

Foreshadowing his current position, he headed to the Northeast for college, earning a B.A. in History (with a concentration in feminist and gender studies) from Haverford College. After living in Pennsylvania, Scotland, Germany, and Italy, he returned to California for graduate school, receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, where he studied modern European history, with minor fields in world history and cross-cultural women's history. Though he misses the magnificent Pacific Ocean, he loves living in New York.

 Dr. Gabriel teaches survey courses in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and modern Germany and Italy, as well as seminars on topics including political violence, genocide, World War I, and other dark aspects of modern history. He also teaches in the First-Year Program.

 His current research explores how cultural ideas help shape people's conception and practice of politics. He is working on a book that explores how responses to anarchist terrorism influenced the political culture of Imperial Germany (1871-1918). He recently completed an essay addressing anarchist reactions to the judicial system and imprisonment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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