Hannah Arendt Center Staff

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Roger Berkowitz
Founder & Academic Director

Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy,  and Human Rights, Berkowitz writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, co-editor of Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012), and editor of the annual journal HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. His essay "Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt's Politics," has helped bring attention to the centrality of reconciliation in Hannah Arendt's work.  The Arendt Center organizes an annual conference every October. Professor Berkowitz edits the Hannah Arendt Center's weekly newsletter, Amor Mundi. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Paris Review Online, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Interest, and many other publications. Berkowitz is the 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany. (Photo Credit: Doug Menuez)

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Christine Gonzalez Stanton
Executive Director

Christine joined Bard College in 2013 working in the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. In 2014, she transitioned from ODAA to join the team at the Hannah Arendt Center. As a member of the senior management team at the Hannah Arendt Center, Christine works closely with the Founder & Academic Director, and the Advisory Board. She has a broad responsibility for center-wide operations, external relations, membership programs, fundraising, grant life cycles, community outreach, budget oversight, academic partnerships, and fiscal management. In addition, she oversees human resource management, manages the center's staff & student office fellows, and is the Managing Director of the newly created Hannah Arendt Humanities Network funded by the Open Society University Network. Her career spans over 20 years in business management working in the fields of higher education, arts, and non-profit community organizations. Prior to joining Bard College, Stanton held positions working for a world-renowned glass artist, Dale Chihuly, in Seattle, WA, where she managed museum and gallery contracts. Stanton earned her BA degree in Sociology from the Ohio State University. She's a member of the National Association of Non-Profit Organizations and Executives and has received numerous awards throughout her career for her commitment to students and the community.

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Jana Mader
Director of Academic Programs

Jana Mader holds an M.A. in German and Anthropology and a PhD in Comparative Literature, both from the University of Munich. She has taught at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and The Juilliard School, and has been teaching at Bard since 2021. Her research interests include 19th-century literature, politics, and art; nation-building in the United States and Germany; Hudson Valley history, art, and literature; national narratives and nationalism; Hannah Arendt; 19th- and 20th-century poetry; Arendt and “poetic language."

As a scholar, writer, and translator, she works at the intersection of theory and practice. Her first novel, Wir alles, wir nichts, was published in 2018, and in 2020 she co-edited Denkräume. Von Orten und Ideen, an anthology on places and spaces of thinking published by Rowohlt Verlag. In 2023, Natur und Nation. Landschaft als Ausdruck nationaler Identität, a comparative analysis of 19th-century literature on the Hudson Valley and the Rhine Valley, was published by Königshausen & Neumann. Jana’s essay on Arendt and the poet Friedrich Hölderlin appeared in the Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2020, and she is currently working on Arendt and W. H. Auden. More about her work can be found here: janamarlene.com

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Hillary Harvey
HAHN Program Manager

Prior to joining the Hannah Arendt Center, Hillary was Communications Specialist for Ulster County Executives Jen Metzger and (now-Congressman) Pat Ryan. She served on Ulster County's first Innovation Team, which built and managed the Ulster County COVID-19 hotline throughout the pandemic, and implemented goal-setting strategies across the 20+ governmental departments. Hillary earned her BA degree from Bennington College, and she is passionate about civic engagement.

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Philip Lindsay
Democracy Innovation Program Manager
& Communications Coordinator

Before joining the Hannah Arendt Center, Philip helped run a small community health center in NYC. He has a BA in Latin American Studies from Temple University, and a certificate in Political Economy from the London School of Economics. He spent a year in Germany as a Congress-Bundestag (CBYX) Fellow focusing on the politics of climate change. In his free time, he enjoys organizing intimate concerts and building community through the arts. 

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Thomas Wild
Research Director

Dr. Wild's research and teaching interests include 20th-century German literature and film; the political dimensions of culture, art, and thought; Hannah Arendt; and contemporary developments in German media and society after 1989. Among his publications are a monograph on Arendt's relationships with key postwar German writers; an intellectual biography of Arendt; and a edition of poetry by Thomas Brasch. He coedited Arendt's conversations and correspondence with the eminent German historian and political essayist Joachim Fest. He is also a literary critic and cultural correspondent for the German dailies Sïddeutsche Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel. At Bard since 2012.

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Nicholas Dunn
Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

He also works in contemporary political theory, with an emphasis on Hannah Arendt and issues related to pluralism, democracy, and disagreement. The central theme of his work is the faculty of judgment: its nature as a mental activity and its practical potential. His current work deals with the role of feeling, imagination, and the Other in cultivating one’s judgment. To learn more, visit http://nicholasdunn.me.