Fall 2015 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, history
Sean Cosgrove is a cultural and urban historian of the modern United States in his second year of the history Ph.D. program at Cornell University. Before starting at Cornell, Cosgrove received his B.A. in English literature and history from the University of Sydney, and a M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago. His current research project seeks to understand the relationship between unusual forms of everyday violence that emerged in late 19th-century America and conceptions of the human body, gender and sexuality, and urban spaces.