Leo Franks

PhD Candidate

Jewish


Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies.

Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory.


Education

M.A. in History. University of California at Berkeley. 2025.

M.Phil. in Modern European History. St Catharine's College. University of Cambridge. 2023.

M.A. (hons) in History. University of Aberdeen. 2022. 


Journal Articles

"Critiquing the Beheading of Britain's First Holocaust Memorial", Sculpture Journal, in press, vol. 35, no. 2 (2026).


Reviews

"International Jewish humanitarianism in the age of the Great War", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 22, no. 2 (2023), 232–233.


Teaching

Graduate Student Instructor. "Liberal Democracy in Europe Since the Seventeenth Century". History 158E. Spring 2026. (Sole GSI).

Reader. "The International Economy of the Twentieth Century". History 160. Autumn 2025.

Graduate Student Instructor. "History of the Holocaust". History 178B. Spring 2025. (Sole GSI).