Gabe is the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and a Professor of History at the University of Oregon. He previously was Dean of the Clark Honors College at Oregon. From 2010 until 2018, he was a Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, where he also served as Director of the Program in Latin American Studies. He has written 3 books on aspects of European and Latin American History, most recently The European Seaborne Empires (Yale UP, 2019). In addition to his academic scholarship, Gabe contributes regularly to mainstream publications, including the Times Literary Supplement and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Gabe is a 2001 Mitchell Scholar. He received an interdisciplinary MA in Culture and Colonialism from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Gabe's thesis research examined British and Irish perceptions of Latin American independence in the first half of the nineteenth century. The themes and subject matter Gabe studied in Ireland have continued to feature in his scholarship to the present day. After Galway, he earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge, was elected to a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then taught at Harvard University before moving through the faculty ranks at Johns Hopkins. Gabe obtained his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University.